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1  One picture succeeded another in his imagination.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXV
2  His speech to the boyars had already taken definite shape in his imagination.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
3  Thousands of dreams of a future family life continually rose in her imagination.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
4  Mademoiselle Bourienne was often touched to tears as in imagination she told this story to him, her seducer.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
5  Now and then his attention wandered from the book and the Square and he formed in imagination a new plan of life.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V
6  In his imagination he appointed days for assemblies at the palace of the Tsars, at which Russian notables and his own would mingle.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XIX
7  A husband, a man, a strong dominant and strangely attractive being rose in her imagination, and carried her into a totally different happy world of his own.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
8  What she drew from the guitar would have had no meaning for other listeners, but in her imagination a whole series of reminiscences arose from those sounds.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IX
9  And again in imagination she went over her whole conversation with Kuragin, and again saw the face, gestures, and tender smile of that bold handsome man when he pressed her arm.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X
10  Occasionally amid these memories temptations of the devil would surge into her imagination: thoughts of how things would be after his death, and how her new, liberated life would be ordered.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
11  I wished to meditate, but instead my imagination pictured an occurrence of four years ago, when Dolokhov, meeting me in Moscow after our duel, said he hoped I was enjoying perfect peace of mind in spite of my wife's absence.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
12  With mournful pleasure she now lingered over these images, repelling with horror only the last one, the picture of his death, which she felt she could not contemplate even in imagination at this still and mystic hour of night.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XII
13  And suddenly, at this thought of death, a whole series of most distant, most intimate, memories rose in his imagination: he remembered his last parting from his father and his wife; he remembered the days when he first loved her.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
14  She vividly pictured herself as Prince Andrew's wife, and the scenes of happiness with him she had so often repeated in her imagination, and at the same time, aglow with excitement, recalled every detail of yesterday's interview with Anatole.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIV
15  Napoleon rode on, dreaming of the Moscow that so appealed to his imagination, and "the bird restored to its native fields" galloped to our outposts, inventing on the way all that had not taken place but that he meant to relate to his comrades.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VII
16  I never could understand the fondness some people have for confusing their minds by dwelling on mystical books that merely awaken their doubts and excite their imagination, giving them a bent for exaggeration quite contrary to Christian simplicity.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
17  In imagination she already pictured herself by Theodosia's side, dressed in coarse rags, walking with a staff, a wallet on her back, along the dusty road, directing her wanderings from one saint's shrine to another, free from envy, earthly love, or desire, and reaching at last the place where there is no more sorrow or sighing, but eternal joy and bliss.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
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