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1  Woman desires to have rights, to be independent, educated.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
2  A man must be independent; he has his masculine interests.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 11
3  In any case I can give up anything for her, but not my masculine independence, he thought.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 25
4  He was not by now altogether a part of herself, but sometimes lived his own life independently of her.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 1
5  The English fashion of the complete independence of girls was also not accepted, and not possible in Russian society.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
6  "Yes, but faith without works is dead," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, recalling the phrase from the catechism, and only by his smile clinging to his independence.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 21
7  This lovely spring roused Levin still more, and strengthened him in his resolution of renouncing all his past and building up his lonely life firmly and independently.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
8  That she might be independent of the Levins in this expedition, Darya Alexandrovna sent to the village to hire horses for the drive; but Levin learning of it went to her to protest.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 16
9  Anxious to show his independence and to advance, he had refused a post that had been offered him, hoping that this refusal would heighten his value; but it turned out that he had been too bold, and he was passed over.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
10  He felt that this independent attitude of a man who might have done anything, but cared to do nothing, was already beginning to pall, that many people were beginning to fancy that he was not really capable of anything but being a straightforward, good-natured fellow.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
11  He had eaten nothing for a whole day, he had not slept for two nights, had spent several hours undressed in the frozen air, and felt not simply fresher and stronger than ever, but felt utterly independent of his body; he moved without muscular effort, and felt as if he could do anything.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 15
12  And having, whether he liked or not, taken up for himself the position of an independent man, he carried it off with great tact and good sense, behaving as though he bore no grudge against anyone, did not regard himself as injured in any way, and cared for nothing but to be left alone since he was enjoying himself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
13  Vronsky had come to the elections partly because he was bored in the country and wanted to show Anna his right to independence, and also to repay Sviazhsky by his support at the election for all the trouble he had taken for Vronsky at the district council election, but chiefly in order strictly to perform all those duties of a nobleman and landowner which he had taken upon himself.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 31