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1  But her mother saw them in a different light.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
2  She was the smile that shed light on all round her.
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3  "Here, bring the light, Fyodor, this way," said Levin, examining the calf.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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4  Seizing the first pretext, she got up, and with her light, resolute step went for her album.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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5  Deliberately she shrouded the light in her eyes, but it shone against her will in the faintly perceptible smile.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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6  Madame Karenina, however, did not wait for her brother, but catching sight of him she stepped out with her light, resolute step.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
7  Catching a sound of skirts and light steps at the door, she looked round, and her care-worn face unconsciously expressed not gladness, but wonder.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
8  There was the warm, steamy smell of dung when the frozen door was opened, and the cows, astonished at the unfamiliar light of the lantern, stirred on the fresh straw.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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9  The ball was only just beginning as Kitty and her mother walked up the great staircase, flooded with light, and lined with flowers and footmen in powder and red coats.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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10  The snow of the little quadrangle before the house was lit up by a light in the bedroom windows of his old nurse, Agafea Mihalovna, who performed the duties of housekeeper in his house.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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11  It was all horribly disgusting, yet to Levin it appeared not at all in the same disgusting light as it inevitably would to those who did not know Nikolay, did not know all his story, did not know his heart.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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12  Her light, transparent skirts rose like a cloud about her slender waist; one bare, thin, soft, girlish arm, hanging listlessly, was lost in the folds of her pink tunic; in the other she held her fan, and with rapid, short strokes fanned her burning face.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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13  She knew that feeling and knew its signs, and saw them in Anna; saw the quivering, flashing light in her eyes, and the smile of happiness and excitement unconsciously playing on her lips, and the deliberate grace, precision, and lightness of her movements.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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14  And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco.
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15  She drew one more deep breath of the fresh air, and had just put her hand out of her muff to take hold of the door post and get back into the carriage, when another man in a military overcoat, quite close beside her, stepped between her and the flickering light of the lamp post.
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16  He read, too, that Count Beist was rumored to have left for Wiesbaden, and that one need have no more gray hair, and of the sale of a light carriage, and of a young person seeking a situation; but these items of information did not give him, as usual, a quiet, ironical gratification.
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17  She was fascinating in her simple black dress, fascinating were her round arms with their bracelets, fascinating was her firm neck with its thread of pearls, fascinating the straying curls of her loose hair, fascinating the graceful, light movements of her little feet and hands, fascinating was that lovely face in its eagerness, but there was something terrible and cruel in her fascination.
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