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1 In spite of Rostopchin's broadsheets, or because of them or independently of them, the strangest and most contradictory rumors were current in the town.
War and Peace 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XII
2 So the way in which these people killed one another was not decided by Napoleon's will but occurred independently of him, in accord with the will of hundreds of thousands of people who took part in the common action.
War and Peace 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVIII
3 The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man.
War and Peace 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
4 The art of his reading was supposed to lie in rolling out the words, quite independently of their meaning, in a loud and singsong voice alternating between a despairing wail and a tender murmur, so that the wail fell quite at random on one word and the murmur on another.
War and Peace 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I