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1  Some peaches were lying on the table in the corner room.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 15
2  It was as impossible as beating a woman, stealing, or lying.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 19
3  Anna said what came to her lips, and marveled, hearing herself, at her own capacity for lying.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
4  And the ploughing of the further land to go on without a break so as to let it ripen lying fallow.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
5  He pointed to some sort of iron bars, fastened together with strings, lying in a corner of the room.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 25
6  Except deceit and lying nothing could come of it now; and deceit and lying were opposed to his nature.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
7  He recalled particularly vividly the shame he had more than once detected in her at this necessity for lying and deceit.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
8  There, looking at her table, with the malachite blotting case lying at the top and an unfinished letter, his thoughts suddenly changed.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
9  He vividly recalled all the constantly recurring instances of inevitable necessity for lying and deceit, which were so against his natural bent.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
10  After her husband had left her, she told herself that she was glad, that now everything was made clear, and at least there would be no more lying and deception.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 15
11  Berkoot, the bull, was lying down with his ring in his lip, and seemed about to get up, but thought better of it, and only gave two snorts as they passed by him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 26
12  Left alone in the room assigned him, lying on a spring mattress that yielded unexpectedly at every movement of his arm or his leg, Levin did not fall asleep for a long while.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 28
13  The morning dew was still lying on the thick undergrowth of the grass, and that he might not get his feet wet, Sergey Ivanovitch asked his brother to drive him in the trap up to the willow tree from which the carp was caught.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 2
14  The wind seemed as though lying in wait for her; with gleeful whistle it tried to snatch her up and bear her off, but she clung to the cold door post, and holding her skirt got down onto the platform and under the shelter of the carriages.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
15  The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
16  The storm swooped down, enveloped him and the haycock on which he was lying, and the other haycocks, and the wagon-loads, and the whole meadow and distant fields all seemed to be shaking and singing to the measures of this wild merry song with its shouts and whistles and clapping.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
17  He felt all the torture of his own and her position, all the difficulty there was for them, conspicuous as they were in the eye of all the world, in concealing their love, in lying and deceiving; and in lying, deceiving, feigning, and continually thinking of others, when the passion that united them was so intense that they were both oblivious of everything else but their love.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
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