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1  Both stood bending over a perambulator with a green umbrella.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 17
2  The smoke from the gun was white as milk over the green of the grass.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 12
3  As soon as they entered the marsh, the two dogs began hunting about together and made towards the green, slime-covered pool.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
4  And truly Levin had never drunk any liquor so good as this warm water with green bits floating in it, and a taste of rust from the tin dipper.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
5  Shtcherbatsky moved away from them, and Kitty, going up to a card table, sat down, and, taking up the chalk, began drawing diverging circles over the new green cloth.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 13
6  By gymnastics and careful attention to his health he had brought himself to such a point that in spite of his excess in pleasure he looked as fresh as a big glossy green Dutch cucumber.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
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7  In front of him, in the bend of the river beyond the marsh, moved a bright-colored line of peasant women, and the scattered hay was being rapidly formed into gray winding rows over the pale green stubble.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 11
8  The bright sun, the brilliant green of the foliage, the strains of the music were for her the natural setting of all these familiar faces, with their changes to greater emaciation or to convalescence, for which she watched.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
9  "They asked my husband and me to dinner, and told us the sauce at that dinner cost a hundred pounds," Princess Myakaya said, speaking loudly, and conscious everyone was listening; "and very nasty sauce it was, some green mess."
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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10  Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
11  When he came out of the forest, in the immense plain before him, his grass fields stretched in an unbroken carpet of green, without one bare place or swamp, only spotted here and there in the hollows with patches of melting snow.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
12  The first to come out was Vassenka Veslovsky, in new high boots that reached half-way up his thick thighs, in a green blouse, with a new Russian leather cartridge-belt, and in his Scotch cap with ribbons, with a brand-new English gun without a sling.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 8
13  Opening his blinded eyes, Levin gazed through the thick veil of rain that separated him now from the copse, and to his horror the first thing he saw was the green crest of the familiar oak-tree in the middle of the copse uncannily changing its position.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 17
14  "Yes, I must make it clear to myself and understand," he thought, looking intently at the untrampled grass before him, and following the movements of a green beetle, advancing along a blade of couch-grass and lifting up in its progress a leaf of goat-weed.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 12
15  Standing still, and looking at the tops of the aspen trees waving in the wind, with their freshly washed, brightly shining leaves in the cold sunshine, she knew that they would not forgive her, that everyone and everything would be merciless to her now as was that sky, that green.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 15