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1  not by a balance of political power.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI
2  "Oh, it's terrible to feel oneself so in this man's power," thought Rostov.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIV
3  the balance of power in Europe and the rights of the people, the abbe was saying.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
4  Prince Andrew felt that an invisible power was leading him forward, and experienced great happiness.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVIII
5  The people only gave him power that he might rid them of the Bourbons and because they saw that he was a great man.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
6  She already had power over him, and between them there was no longer any barrier except the barrier of his own will.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
7  Oh, how Rostov detested at that moment those hands with their short reddish fingers and hairy wrists, which held him in their power.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIV
8  Feeling himself in their power, he resolutely took the salver with both hands and looked sternly and reproachfully at the count who had presented it to him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III
9  He is so accustomed to unlimited power that he is terrible, and now he has this authority of a commander-in-chief of the recruiting, granted by the Emperor.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XI
10  A week later Pierre gave his wife full power to control all his estates in Great Russia, which formed the larger part of his property, and left for Petersburg alone.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER VI
11  "Yes, if having obtained power, without availing himself of it to commit murder he had restored it to the rightful king, I should have called him a great man," remarked the vicomte.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V
12  Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the spectacle of his power over these three women.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
13  He felt now that merely by having been recommended to Prince Andrew he had already risen above the general who at the front had the power to annihilate him, a lieutenant of the Guards.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX
14  The first and chief object of our Order, the foundation on which it rests and which no human power can destroy, is the preservation and handing on to posterity of a certain important mystery.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III
15  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
16  One tormenting impression did not leave him: that those broad-boned reddish hands with hairy wrists visible from under the shirt sleeves, those hands which he loved and hated, held him in their power.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIV
17  Rostov, feeling that he was at the front and in the power of a man toward whom he now admitted that he had been to blame, did not lift his eyes from the colonel's athletic back, his nape covered with light hair, and his red neck.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
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