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1  pet of a trader,' said the adjutant smiling.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER X
2  "Lie down, darling; lie down, my pet," said the countess, softly touching Natasha's shoulders.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXI
3  When they got home she turned everybody out of the room except Natasha, and then called her pet to her armchair.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI
4  Whatever was spoken of he would bring round to the superstitiousness of old maids, or the petting and spoiling of children.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
5  Pierre had managed to start a conversation with the abbe about the balance of power, and the latter, evidently interested by the young man's simple-minded eagerness, was explaining his pet theory.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
6  Only Malasha, Andrew's six-year-old granddaughter whom his Serene Highness had petted and to whom he had given a lump of sugar while drinking his tea, remained on the top of the brick oven in the larger room.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IV
7  Five minutes later little black-eyed three-year-old Natasha, her father's pet, having learned from her brother that Papa was asleep and Mamma was in the sitting room, ran to her father unobserved by her mother.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IX
8  She waited on the old countess, petted and spoiled the children, was always ready to render the small services for which she had a gift, and all this was unconsciously accepted from her with insufficient gratitude.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VIII