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1  The whole forest was already clothed in green.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II
2  His hands were symmetrically placed on the green silk quilt, the palms downward.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
3  She did not listen to or look at Vera, who was telling her something about her own green dress.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
4  Two huntsmen galloped up to the dogs; one in a red cap, the other, a stranger, in a green coat.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
5  One very fat girl in a white silk dress sat apart on a low bench, to the back of which a piece of green cardboard was glued.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER IX
6  Behind them sat Anna Mikhaylovna wearing a green headdress and with a happy look of resignation to the will of God on her face.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VIII
7  Only now in the stillness of the night, reading it by the faint light under the green shade, did he grasp its meaning for a moment.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III
8  He could also, by the gleam of bayonets visible through the smoke, make out moving masses of infantry and narrow lines of artillery with green caissons.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVII
9  An Austrian officer in a white uniform with green plumes in his hat galloped up to Kutuzov and asked in the Emperor's name had the fourth column advanced into action.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
10  The birches with their sticky green leaves were motionless, and lilac-colored flowers and the first blades of green grass were pushing up and lifting last year's leaves.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I
11  The fences and gates were new and solid; two fire pumps and a water cart, painted green, stood in a shed; the paths were straight, the bridges were strong and had handrails.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI
12  The wooded ravines and the copses, which at the end of August had still been green islands amid black fields and stubble, had become golden and bright-red islands amid the green winter rye.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
13  The verdure had thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
14  He now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected a moment.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
15  At the bend of the Danube, vessels, an island, and a castle with a park surrounded by the waters of the confluence of the Enns and the Danube became visible, and the rocky left bank of the Danube covered with pine forests, with a mystic background of green treetops and bluish gorges.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI
16  In the forest the harness bells sounded yet more muffled than they had done six weeks before, for now all was thick, shady, and dense, and the young firs dotted about in the forest did not jar on the general beauty but, lending themselves to the mood around, were delicately green with fluffy young shoots.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III
17  They went through the muddy village, past threshing floors and green fields of winter rye, downhill where snow still lodged near the bridge, uphill where the clay had been liquefied by the rain, past strips of stubble land and bushes touched with green here and there, and into a birch forest growing on both sides of the road.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I
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