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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  "My mother," Vronsky responded, smiling, as everyone did who met Oblonsky.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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3  He took off his skates, and overtook the mother and daughter at the entrance of the gardens.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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4  The week before, Kitty had told her mother of a conversation she had with Vronsky during a mazurka.
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5  Vronsky, standing beside Oblonsky, watched the carriages and the passengers, totally oblivious of his mother.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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6  "No, she could not tell an untruth with those eyes," thought the mother, smiling at her agitation and happiness.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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7  But, in spite of that, the mother had spent the whole of that winter in a state of terrible anxiety and agitation.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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8  Her success in society had been greater than that of either of her elder sisters, and greater even than her mother had anticipated.
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9  I never longed so for the country, Russian country, with bast shoes and peasants, as when I was spending a winter with my mother in Nice.
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10  "Thank God, she has refused him," thought the mother, and her face lighted up with the habitual smile with which she greeted her guests on Thursdays.
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11  Catching sight of Kitty going away, and her mother meeting her at the steps, Levin, flushed from his rapid exercise, stood still and pondered a minute.
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12  Vronsky had told Kitty that both he and his brother were so used to obeying their mother that they never made up their minds to any important undertaking without consulting her.
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13  His mother had been in her youth a brilliant society woman, who had had during her married life, and still more afterwards, many love affairs notorious in the whole fashionable world.
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14  At the end of the evening Kitty told her mother of her conversation with Levin, and in spite of all the pity she felt for Levin, she was glad at the thought that she had received an offer.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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15  He had even supposed that she, a worn-out woman no longer young or good-looking, and in no way remarkable or interesting, merely a good mother, ought from a sense of fairness to take an indulgent view.
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16  He could not at this date repent of the fact that he, a handsome, susceptible man of thirty-four, was not in love with his wife, the mother of five living and two dead children, and only a year younger than himself.
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17  The little girl knew that there was a quarrel between her father and mother, and that her mother could not be cheerful, and that her father must be aware of this, and that he was pretending when he asked about it so lightly.
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