1 Rare indeed were the brief periods of peace.
2 And I see no chance before us of peace for me or for you.
3 He dreaded the breaking up of the inward peace he had gained with such effort.
4 Levin read in the queer, familiar handwriting: "I humbly beg you to leave me in peace."
5 No one ever spoke to her so but the justices of the peace who tried her for trying to get out of a house of ill-fame.
6 Finding instead of peace and rest all these, from her point of view, fearful calamities, Darya Alexandrovna was at first in despair.
7 He felt that this was rousing in his soul a feeling of anger destructive of his peace of mind and of all the good of his achievement.
8 Kitty, with a haughty air, without making peace with her friend, took the necklace in a little box from the table and went to her mother.
9 "One must let you drink your coffee in peace, at least," said Matvey, in the affectionately gruff tone with which it was impossible to be angry.
10 Yes, she was unhappy before, but proud and at peace; and now she cannot be at peace and feel secure in her dignity, though she does not show it.
11 He could not be at peace because after dreaming so long of family life, and feeling himself so ripe for it, he was still not married, and was further than ever from marriage.
12 At such moments particularly, Alexey Alexandrovitch had a sense of perfect peace and inward harmony, and saw nothing extraordinary in his position, nothing that ought to be changed.
13 The feeling of furious anger with his wife, who would not observe the proprieties and keep to the one stipulation he had laid on her, not to receive her lover in her own home, gave him no peace.
14 The simplicity, the purity, the sanity of this life he felt clearly, and he was convinced he would find in it the content, the peace, and the dignity, of the lack of which he was so miserably conscious.
15 These principles were possibly not reasonable and not good, but they were of unfailing certainty, and so long as he adhered to them, Vronsky felt that his heart was at peace and he could hold his head up.
16 And pity for her, and remorse for having desired her death, and most of all, the joy of forgiveness, made him at once conscious, not simply of the relief of his own sufferings, but of a spiritual peace he had never experienced before.
17 He felt that besides the blessed spiritual force controlling his soul, there was another, a brutal force, as powerful, or more powerful, which controlled his life, and that this force would not allow him that humble peace he longed for.
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