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1  This being the field marshal's frame of mind he was naturally regarded as merely a hindrance and obstacle to the impending war.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XI
2  Pierre had evoked the passionate affection of the Italian merely by evoking the best side of his nature and taking a pleasure in so doing.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIII
3  At the council at Fili the prevailing thought in the minds of the Russian commanders was the one naturally suggesting itself, namely, a direct retreat by the Nizhni road.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER I
4  That movement from the Nizhni to the Ryazan, Tula, and Kaluga roads was so natural that even the Russian marauders moved in that direction, and demands were sent from Petersburg for Kutuzov to take his army that way.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II
5  It is natural for a man who does not understand the workings of a machine to imagine that a shaving that has fallen into it by chance and is interfering with its action and tossing about in it is its most important part.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XV
6  The famous flank movement merely consisted in this: after the advance of the French had ceased, the Russian army, which had been continually retreating straight back from the invaders, deviated from that direct course and, not finding itself pursued, was naturally drawn toward the district where supplies were abundant.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER II
7  Formerly she had felt that he regarded her with indifference and irony, and so had shrunk into herself as she did with others and had shown him only the combative side of her nature; but now he seemed to be trying to understand the most intimate places of her heart, and, mistrustfully at first but afterwards gratefully, she let him see the hidden, kindly sides of her character.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XIII