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1  Bald Hills will be occupied by the enemy within a week.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
2  But this intrigue did not now occupy the old man's mind.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III
3  And joyful and agitating thoughts began to occupy his mind.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XVI
4  Bagration drove up in a carriage to the house occupied by Barclay.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER I
5  Bennigsen on his own authority ordered the troops to occupy the high ground.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXIII
6  The cares of preparation and giving orders, for which everyone came to her, occupied her all day.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
7  Prince Vasili, who still occupied his former important posts, formed a connecting link between these two circles.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
8  le General Rameau would occupy Prince Andrew's study and amuse himself by looking through and reading his letters and papers.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER X
9  That same day Kutuzov was appointed commander-in-chief with full powers over the armies and over the whole region occupied by them.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
10  When her carriage drove out of the house, he mounted and accompanied her eight miles from Bogucharovo to where the road was occupied by our troops.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIV
11  A new sensation of comfort and relief came over him when, seeing these girls, he realized the existence of other human interests entirely aloof from his own and just as legitimate as those that occupied him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
12  And the Russians, not having time to begin a general engagement, withdrew their left wing from the position they had intended to occupy and took up a new position which had not been foreseen and was not fortified.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIX
13  Prince Andrew's second letter, written near Vitebsk after the French had occupied that town, gave a brief account of the whole campaign, enclosed for them a plan he had drawn and forecasts as to the further progress of the war.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
14  The vice-King will occupy the village and cross by its three bridges, advancing to the same heights as Morand's and Gibrard's divisions, which under his leadership will be directed against the redoubt and come into line with the rest of the forces.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXVII
15  Alpatych also knew that on the previous day another peasant had even brought from the village of Visloukhovo, which was occupied by the French, a proclamation by a French general that no harm would be done to the inhabitants, and if they remained they would be paid for anything taken from them.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IX
16  They did not stop at any one of these positions because Kutuzov did not wish to occupy a position he had not himself chosen, because the popular demand for a battle had not yet expressed itself strongly enough, and because Miloradovich had not yet arrived with the militia, and for many other reasons.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XIX
17  The German who knew little French, answered the two first questions by giving the names of his regiment and of his commanding officer, but in reply to the third question which he did not understand said, introducing broken French into his own German, that he was the quartermaster of the regiment and his commander had ordered him to occupy all the houses one after another.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIX
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