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1  His face, despite its fine, rounded wrinkles, had an expression of innocence and youth, his voice was pleasant and musical.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XIII
2  The roar of guns, that had not ceased for ten hours, wearied the ear and gave a peculiar significance to the spectacle, as music does to tableaux vivants.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIV
3  In the midst of his explanation shouts were heard from the army, growing more incoherent and more diffused, mingling with music and songs and coming from the field where the review was held.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XV
4  At the same time he felt that above his face, above the very middle of it, some strange airy structure was being erected out of slender needles or splinters, to the sound of this whispered music.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
5  He felt it in the merry sounds of regimental music he heard from the left side of the field, and felt and realized it especially from the list of prisoners the French officer had read out when he came that morning.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER X
6  Princess Mary spent half of every day with little Nicholas, watching his lessons, teaching him Russian and music herself, and talking to Dessalles; the rest of the day she spent over her books, with her old nurse, or with "God's folk" who sometimes came by the back door to see her.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II