1 One can imagine what confusion and obscurity would result from such an account of the duel.
2 But above all Denisov must not dare to imagine that I'll obey him and that he can order me about.
3 She was gazing where she knew him to be; but she could not imagine him otherwise than as he had been here.
4 To be able to go a thousand miles he must imagine that something good awaits him at the end of those thousand miles.
5 It would be difficult and even impossible to imagine any result more opportune than the actual outcome of this battle.
6 Let us imagine two men who have come out to fight a duel with rapiers according to all the rules of the art of fencing.
7 And now he again seemed to be saying the same words to her, only in her imagination Natasha this time gave him a different answer.
8 Pierre stood pressed against the wall of a charred house, listening to that noise which mingled in his imagination with the roll of the drums.
9 I had no idea and could not imagine what state he was in, all I wanted was to see him and be with him, she said, trembling, and breathing quickly.
10 He imagined all sorts of possible contingencies, just like the younger men, but with this difference, that he saw thousands of contingencies instead of two or three and based nothing on them.
11 Those dreadful moments he had lived through at the executions had as it were forever washed away from his imagination and memory the agitating thoughts and feelings that had formerly seemed so important.
12 These men, carried away by their passions, were but blind tools of the most melancholy law of necessity, but considered themselves heroes and imagined that they were accomplishing a most noble and honorable deed.
13 It is natural for a man who does not understand the workings of a machine to imagine that a shaving that has fallen into it by chance and is interfering with its action and tossing about in it is its most important part.
14 And yet it is difficult to imagine an historical character whose activity was so unswervingly directed to a single aim; and it would be difficult to imagine any aim more worthy or more consonant with the will of the whole people.
15 On the contrary, I can supply you with everything even if you want to give dinner parties, warmly replied Chichagov, who tried by every word he spoke to prove his own rectitude and therefore imagined Kutuzov to be animated by the same desire.
16 Then let us imagine that the combatant who so sensibly employed the best and simplest means to attain his end was at the same time influenced by traditions of chivalry and, desiring to conceal the facts of the case, insisted that he had gained his victory with the rapier according to all the rules of art.
17 If instead of imagining to ourselves commanders of genius leading the Russian army, we picture that army without any leaders, it could not have done anything but make a return movement toward Moscow, describing an arc in the direction where most provisions were to be found and where the country was richest.
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