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1  There is no one to help me or pity me.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
2  It was pitiful to see them, boys, put in the dancer.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER VIII
3  What a pity you weren't at the Arkharovs' on Thursday.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
4  Still, one must have pity on a young man in misfortune.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
5  I pity Prince Vasili but am still more sorry for Pierre.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
6  He feebly moved his leg and uttered a weak, sickly groan which aroused his own pity.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
7  Then he had been a brisk, cheerful, self-assured old man; now he seemed a pitiful, bewildered person.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XIV
8  The pitiful groans from all sides and the torturing pain in his thigh, stomach, and back distracted him.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVII
9  He was bespattered with mud and had a pitiful, weary, and distracted air, though at the same time he was haughty and self-confident.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
10  Napoleon himself is no longer of any account; all his actions are evidently pitiful and mean, but again an inexplicable chance occurs.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER III
11  He was glad, and at the same instant began to pity the miserable man who stood before him, but the task he had begun had to be completed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
12  But those who surrendered, while remaining in the same pitiful plight, would be on a lower level to claim a share in the necessities of life.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER X
13  The princess' beautiful eyes with all their former calm radiance were looking with tender affection and pity at Mademoiselle Bourienne's pretty face.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
14  The sensation of those terrible whistling sounds and of the corpses around him merged in Rostov's mind into a single feeling of terror and pity for himself.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
15  At that moment the pitiful wailing of women was heard from different sides, the frightened baby began to cry, and people crowded silently with pale faces round the cook.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IV
16  He had the air of a man oppressed by business, weary and suffering, who yet would not, for pity's sake, leave this helpless youth who, after all, was the son of his old friend and the possessor of such enormous wealth, to the caprice of fate and the designs of rogues.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
17  And some years pass during which he plays a pitiful comedy to himself in solitude on his island, justifying his actions by intrigues and lies when the justification is no longer needed, and displaying to the whole world what it was that people had mistaken for strength as long as an unseen hand directed his actions.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
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