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1  They were here, but where precisely she could not yet determine.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 12
2  It was clearly and precisely defined in the code of principles by which he was guided.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
3  Yes, precisely so; but I ought to warn you that I may be wasting your time and attention.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
4  She did not remember the precise sum, but it appeared that the German had worked it out to the fraction of a farthing.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27
5  "I cannot admit it," said Sergey Ivanovitch, with his habitual clearness, precision of expression, and elegance of phrase.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
6  But in her eyes there were gleams of light that betrayed that she understood perfectly and precisely as he did what hope he might have.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 4
7  This trick, a bad habit, the cracking of his fingers, always soothed him, and gave precision to his thoughts, so needful to him at this juncture.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
8  Vronsky glanced at Anna at the precise limit of time, so suggestive of steps having been taken that she should meet no one; but Anna appeared not to notice it.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 32
9  How often he had seen him come up to Moscow from the country where he was doing something, but what precisely Stepan Arkadyevitch could never quite make out, and indeed he took no interest in the matter.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
10  When Oblonsky asked Levin what had brought him to town, Levin blushed, and was furious with himself for blushing, because he could not answer, "I have come to make your sister-in-law an offer," though that was precisely what he had come for.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
11  She knew that feeling and knew its signs, and saw them in Anna; saw the quivering, flashing light in her eyes, and the smile of happiness and excitement unconsciously playing on her lips, and the deliberate grace, precision, and lightness of her movements.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 23
12  At the very bottom of her heart she did think there had been something precisely at the moment when he had crossed over after her to the other end of the table; but she dared not own it even to herself, and would have been even more unable to bring herself to say so to him, and so increase his suffering.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 7
13  Both knew, without a shade of doubt, what sort of thing life was and what was death, and though neither of them could have answered, and would even not have understood the questions that presented themselves to Levin, both had no doubt of the significance of this event, and were precisely alike in their way of looking at it, which they shared with millions of people.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 19