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1  From the time of his marriage Sonya had lived in his house.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VIII
2  The arrangements for Natasha's marriage occupied him for a while.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
3  All who had known Natasha before her marriage wondered at the change in her as at something extraordinary.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
4  At first he saw nothing reprehensible in this, but in the second year of his marriage his view of that form of punishment suddenly changed.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VIII
5  After seven years of marriage Pierre had the joyous and firm consciousness that he was not a bad man, and he felt this because he saw himself reflected in his wife.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
6  Since their marriage Natasha and her husband had lived in Moscow, in Petersburg, on their estate near Moscow, or with her mother, that is to say, in Nicholas' house.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
7  If the purpose of marriage is the family, the person who wishes to have many wives or husbands may perhaps obtain much pleasure, but in that case will not have a family.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
8  That is the ground which makes the fall of the first man, resulting in the production of the human race, appear evidently less free than a man's entry into marriage today.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IX
9  These questions, then as now, existed only for those who see nothing in marriage but the pleasure married people get from one another, that is, only the beginnings of marriage and not its whole significance, which lies in the family.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X
10  In the early days of his marriage it had seemed strange to him that his wife should expect him not to forget to procure all the things he undertook to buy, and he had been taken aback by her serious annoyance when on his first trip he forgot everything.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XII
11  Discussions and questions of that kind, which are like the question of how to get the greatest gratification from one's dinner, did not then and do not now exist for those for whom the purpose of a dinner is the nourishment it affords; and the purpose of marriage is the family.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER X