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Quotes from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
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1 Anna had put on a very simple batiste gown.
2 Dolly scrutinized that simple gown attentively.
3 The whole gown was trimmed with Venetian guipure.
4 In her white dressing gown her figure seemed more than usually grand and broad.
5 Varenka was standing at the door, dressed in a yellow print gown, with a white kerchief on her head.
6 There, too, she descried Stiva, and there she saw the exquisite figure and head of Anna in a black velvet gown.
7 Anna, in a gray dressing gown, with a crop of short clustering black curls on her round head, was sitting on a settee.
8 And again Grisha poked his little face under her arm, and nestled with his head on her gown, beaming with pride and happiness.
9 On meeting Betsy coming towards her in a white gown that struck her by its elegance, Anna smiled at her just as she always did.
10 Dressed in a white gown, deeply embroidered, she was sitting in a corner of the terrace behind some flowers, and did not hear him.
11 He hurriedly jumped up, hardly awake, and kept his eyes fixed on her, as he put on his dressing gown; then he stopped, still looking at her.
12 Her cheeks were flushed crimson, her eyes glittered, her little white hands thrust out from the sleeves of her dressing gown were playing with the quilt, twisting it about.
13 She was just the same as when he saw her in Moscow; the same woolen gown, and bare arms and neck, and the same good-naturedly stupid, pockmarked face, only a little plumper.
14 Mon ami," said Lidia Ivanovna, carefully holding the folds of her silk gown so as not to rustle, and in her excitement calling Karenin not Alexey Alexandrovitch, but "mon ami," "donnez-lui la main.
15 Anna was already dressed in a low-necked gown of light silk and velvet that she had had made in Paris, and with costly white lace on her head, framing her face, and particularly becoming, showing up her dazzling beauty.
16 Anna was not in lilac, as Kitty had so urgently wished, but in a black, low-cut, velvet gown, showing her full throat and shoulders, that looked as though carved in old ivory, and her rounded arms, with tiny, slender wrists.
17 Konstantin Levin looked in at the door, and saw that the speaker was a young man with an immense shock of hair, wearing a Russian jerkin, and that a pockmarked woman in a woolen gown, without collar or cuffs, was sitting on the sofa.
18 Anna had come from behind the treillage to meet him, and Levin saw in the dim light of the study the very woman of the portrait, in a dark blue shot gown, not in the same position nor with the same expression, but with the same perfection of beauty which the artist had caught in the portrait.