1 The icon was carried further, accompanied by the throng.
2 The crowd round the icon suddenly parted and pressed against Pierre.
3 An immense crowd of bareheaded officers, soldiers, and militiamen surrounded the icon.
4 The count was the first to rise, and with a loud sigh crossed himself before the icon.
5 This was the icon that had been brought from Smolensk and had since accompanied the army.
6 Behind them soldiers and officers bore a large, dark-faced icon with an embossed metal cover.
7 Someone, a very important personage judging by the haste with which way was made for him, was approaching the icon.
8 At last he rose, kissed the icon as a child does with naively pouting lips, and again bowed till he touched the ground with his hand.
9 The hot rays of the sun beat down vertically and a fresh soft wind played with the hair of the bared heads and with the ribbons decorating the icon.
10 A shopman who entered told her that her husband had gone with others to the cathedral, whence they were fetching the wonder-working icon of Smolensk.
11 They, in Pierre's mind, were the soldiers, those who had been at the battery, those who had given him food, and those who had prayed before the icon.
12 Tomorrow after dinner I shall take the Iberian icon of the Mother of God to the wounded in the Catherine Hospital where we will have some water blessed.
13 His father keeps a cookshop here by the Stone Bridge, and you know there was a large icon of God Almighty painted with a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other.
14 At the summit of the hill they stopped with the icon; the men who had been holding it up by the linen bands attached to it were relieved by others, the chanters relit their censers, and service began.
15 When the service was over, Kutuzov stepped up to the icon, sank heavily to his knees, bowed to the ground, and for a long time tried vainly to rise, but could not do so on account of his weakness and weight.
16 At Anna Pavlovna's on the twenty-sixth of August, the very day of the battle of Borodino, there was a soiree, the chief feature of which was to be the reading of a letter from His Lordship the Bishop when sending the Emperor an icon of the Venerable Sergius.
17 They went away even before the battle of Borodino and still more rapidly after it, despite Rostopchin's calls to defend Moscow or the announcement of his intention to take the wonder-working icon of the Iberian Mother of God and go to fight, or of the balloons that were to destroy the French, and despite all the nonsense Rostopchin wrote in his broadsheets.
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