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1  Now she could remember it and weep or pray.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XII
2  Well, pray if you like, but you had better think it over.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V
3  I'd pray awhile to one, ponder awhile, then go on to another.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIV
4  She tried to think of something else and to pray, but could do neither.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XII
5  She knew that the sole weapon against him was prayer, and she tried to pray.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
6  She could not pray, could not weep, and worldly cares took possession of her.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
7  Softened by memories of Princess Mary he began to pray as he had not done for a long time.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII
8  She wished to pray but did not dare to, dared not in her present state of mind address herself to God.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER X
9  Natasha went up to the monk for his blessing, and he advised her to pray for aid to God and His saint.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII
10  She assumed an attitude of prayer, looked at the icons, repeated the words of a prayer, but she could not pray.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VIII
11  I only pray God that something may happen to me such as happened to Plutarch's men, and I will act as they did.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XVI
12  I shall come to a place and pray there, and before having time to get used to it or getting to love it, I shall go farther.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
13  When they prayed for those who hate us, she tried to think of her enemies and people who hated her, in order to pray for them.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVIII
14  He prayed with that passionate and shamefaced feeling with which men pray at moments of great excitement arising from trivial causes.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V
15  But she could not pray that her enemies might be trampled under foot when but a few minutes before she had been wishing she had more of them that she might pray for them.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVIII
16  There is one thing I constantly pray God to grant, mon cousin," she replied, "and it is that He would be merciful to him and would allow his noble soul peacefully to leave this.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
17  Seeing that her mother was still praying she ran on tiptoe to the bed and, rapidly slipping one little foot against the other, pushed off her slippers and jumped onto the bed the countess had feared might become her grave.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIII
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