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1  The last medicine has done her a very great deal of good.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVII
2  He seemed in better spirits than usual and awaited his son with great impatience.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XXI
3  Natasha unconsciously felt this delicacy and so found great pleasure in his society.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVII
4  "The vibration of my left calf is a great sign with me," he remarked at a later date.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
5  He glanced with pity at the excited face of Ilyin, who talked much and in great agitation.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XIV
6  "Yes, you are a great friend of Bolkonski's, no doubt she wants to send him a message," said the count.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX
7  Though the doctors warned him that with his corpulence wine was dangerous for him, he drank a great deal.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
8  He prayed with that passionate and shamefaced feeling with which men pray at moments of great excitement arising from trivial causes.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
9  At that time a famous joke of Ermolov's was being circulated, that as a great favor he had petitioned the Emperor to make him a German.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
10  After some minutes, the gentleman-in-waiting who was on duty came into the great reception room and, bowing politely, asked Balashev to follow him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
11  She adopted the tone of one who has suffered a great disappointment, like a girl who has either lost the man she loved or been cruelly deceived by him.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V
12  In historic events the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER I
13  Napoleon Bonaparte was despised by all as long as he was great, but now that he has become a wretched comedian the Emperor Francis wants to offer him his daughter in an illegal marriage.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
14  When he returned to Moscow Pierre was handed a letter from Marya Dmitrievna asking him to come and see her on a matter of great importance relating to Andrew Bolkonski and his betrothed.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX
15  And the happiness of taking communion, or "communing" as Agrafena Ivanovna, joyously playing with the word, called it, seemed to Natasha so great that she felt she should never live till that blessed Sunday.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVII
16  The huntsmen assembled with their booty and their stories, and all came to look at the wolf, which, with her broad-browed head hanging down and the bitten stick between her jaws, gazed with great glassy eyes at this crowd of dogs and men surrounding her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
17  He ceased keeping a diary, avoided the company of the Brothers, began going to the club again, drank a great deal, and came once more in touch with the bachelor sets, leading such a life that the Countess Helene thought it necessary to speak severely to him about it.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
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