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1  I will tell you my life some time or other.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
2  'I like comfort in life,' Sitnikov brought out, with dignity.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
3  He was fond of dreaming; his country life had developed the tendency in him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
4  The good order she had established in her house and in her life partly contributed to this result.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
5  She used suddenly to go abroad, and suddenly return to Russia, and led an eccentric life in general.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
6  He returned to Russia, and tried to live his former life again; but he could not get back into the old groove.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  In the first place, experience of life does that; and in the second, I assure you, studying separate individuals is not worth the trouble.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
8  Sometimes coming out of her fragrant bath all warm and enervated, she would fall to musing on the nothingness of life, the sorrow, the labour, the malice of it.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  She said little, but her words showed a knowledge of life; from some of her observations Arkady gathered that this young woman had already felt and thought much.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
10  But life was easy for her, though she was bored at times, and she went on passing day after day with deliberation, never in a hurry, placid, and only rarely disturbed.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI
11  Agathokleya Kuzminishna soon followed him; she could not accustom herself to a dull life in the capital; she was consumed by the ennui of existence away from the regiment.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
12  Anna put up patiently with all her aunt's whims, gradually set to work on her sister's education, and was, it seemed, already getting reconciled to the idea of wasting her life in the wilds.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  Bazarov did not like this measured, somewhat ostentatious punctuality in daily life, 'like moving along rails,' he pronounced it to be; the footmen in livery, the decorous stewards, offended his democratic sentiments.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII
14  But his timidity and agitation did not last long; Madame Odintsov's tranquillity gained upon him too; before a quarter of an hour had passed he was telling her freely about his father, his uncle, his life in Petersburg and in the country.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
15  Matvy Ilyitch used to speak with great respect of Guizot, and tried to impress every one with the idea that he did not belong to the class of routiniers and high-and-dry bureaucrats, that not a single phenomenon of social life passed unnoticed by him.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
16  But to Nikolai, there remained the sense of a well-spent life, his son was growing up under his eyes; Pavel, on the contrary, a solitary bachelor, was entering upon that indefinite twilight period of regrets that are akin to hopes, and hopes that are akin to regrets, when youth is over, while old age has not yet come.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
17  He began to read, chiefly English; he arranged his whole life, roughly speaking, in the English style, rarely saw the neighbours, and only went out to the election of marshals, where he was generally silent, only occasionally annoying and alarming land-owners of the old school by his liberal sallies, and not associating with the representatives of the younger generation.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
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