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1  It was impossible to make out what he wanted.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
2  It was quite impossible to understand these sounds.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
3  It was impossible for him to travel, it would not do to let him die on the road.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
4  "But that's impossible," said Prince Andrew as if it were a matter settled long ago.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXV
5  If you noticed some disorder in the garden," said Alpatych, "it was impossible to prevent it.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
6  Sometimes shouts were heard through the firing, but it was impossible to tell what was being done there.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIII
7  Sometimes when she recalled his looks, his sympathy, and his words, happiness did not appear impossible to her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIV
8  It was impossible to give further orders for the sake of killing time, for the orders had all been given and were now being executed.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIX
9  He muttered unceasingly, his eyebrows and lips twitching, and it was impossible to tell whether he understood what was going on around him or not.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
10  But all that evening and next day reports came in one after another of unheard-of losses, of the loss of half the army, and a fresh battle proved physically impossible.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II
11  "All the points of our position are in the enemy's hands and we cannot dislodge them for lack of troops, the men are running away and it is impossible to stop them," he reported.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXV
12  When Ermolov, having been sent by Kutuzov to inspect the position, told the field marshal that it was impossible to fight there before Moscow and that they must retreat, Kutuzov looked at him in silence.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III
13  It would not take place because the commanders not merely all recognized the position to be impossible, but in their conversations were only discussing what would happen after its inevitable abandonment.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III
14  The booming cannonade and the fusillade of musketry were growing more intense over the whole field, especially to the left where Bagration's fleches were, but where Pierre was the smoke of the firing made it almost impossible to distinguish anything.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
15  It was impossible to give battle before information had been collected, the wounded gathered in, the supplies of ammunition replenished, the slain reckoned up, new officers appointed to replace those who had been killed, and before the men had had food and sleep.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER II
16  From all this talk he saw only one thing: that to defend Moscow was a physical impossibility in the full meaning of those words, that is to say, so utterly impossible that if any senseless commander were to give orders to fight, confusion would result but the battle would still not take place.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III
17  From all this talk he saw only one thing: that to defend Moscow was a physical impossibility in the full meaning of those words, that is to say, so utterly impossible that if any senseless commander were to give orders to fight, confusion would result but the battle would still not take place.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III
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