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1  We have succeeded in getting the information from the government department of Penza.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
2  And this is an abuse of great gravity in itself, and one that reacts injuriously on the government service.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
3  Their uncle, Karenin, a government official of high standing, at one time a favorite of the late Tsar, had brought them up.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 21
4  The government obviously is guided by abstract considerations, and remains indifferent to the influence its measures may exercise.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
5  The article reproached the government and the academy for letting so remarkable an artist be left without encouragement and support.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 9
6  The appointment yielded an income of from seven to ten thousand a year, and Oblonsky could fill it without giving up his government position.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
7  The colonel of the regiment was waited upon by the government clerk, Venden, with a complaint against his officers, who had insulted his wife.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
8  So it had been with Bryantsev, whom Stepan Arkadyevitch had met the previous day, and who was one of the highest functionaries in government now.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 20
9  In the corps Golenishtchev had belonged to the liberal party; he left the corps without entering the army, and had never taken office under the government.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
10  She had found Nikolay Dmitrievitch, had again made it up with him in Moscow, and had moved with him to a provincial town, where he had received a post in the government service.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 16
11  Vronsky saw all the thanklessness of the business, and that there could be no question of a duel in it, that everything must be done to soften the government clerk, and hush the matter up.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
12  Alexey Alexandrovitch had been maintaining that the Russification of Poland could only be accomplished as a result of larger measures which ought to be introduced by the Russian government.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 9
13  But in spite of his habitually dissipated mode of life, his inferior grade in the service, and his comparative youth, he occupied the honorable and lucrative position of president of one of the government boards at Moscow.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
14  After filling for three years the post of president of one of the government boards at Moscow, Stepan Arkadyevitch had won the respect, as well as the liking, of his fellow-officials, subordinates, and superiors, and all who had had business with him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
15  Whether he was uncomfortable that he, a descendant of Rurik, Prince Oblonsky, had been kept for two hours waiting to see a Jew, or that for the first time in his life he was not following the example of his ancestors in serving the government, but was turning off into a new career, anyway he was very uncomfortable.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
16  He regarded Russia as a ruined country, rather after the style of Turkey, and the government of Russia as so bad that he never permitted himself to criticize its doings seriously, and yet he was a functionary of that government and a model marshal of nobility, and when he drove about he always wore the cockade of office and the cap with the red band.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
17  He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
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