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1  Then there was private business of his own, a visit from the doctor and the steward who managed his property.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 26
2  You understand, with his property, now that we are settled in the country, Alexey can exercise great influence.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 19
3  But now we know that these little pills of classical learning possess the medicinal property of anti-nihilism, and we boldly prescribe them to our patients.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
4  Dolly was in despair, she detested her husband, despised him, pitied him, resolved on a separation, resolved to refuse, but ended by agreeing to sell part of her property.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 7
5  His mother, who had her own separate property, had allowed Alexey every year twenty thousand in addition to the twenty-five thousand he had reserved, and Alexey had spent it all.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 19
6  Well, for instance, she told me that he had wanted to give up all his property to his brother, that he had done something extraordinary when he was quite a child, saved a woman out of the water.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 20
7  The merchant would not give more, especially as Darya Alexandrovna, for the first time that winter insisting on her right to her own property, had refused to sign the receipt for the payment of the last third of the forest.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
8  A few weeks before, Konstantin Levin had written to his brother that through the sale of the small part of the property, that had remained undivided, there was a sum of about two thousand roubles to come to him as his share.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 31
9  He had spent a whole month in Moscow with nothing to do, when Sergey Ivanovitch, who had property in the Kashinsky province, and took great interest in the question of the approaching elections, made ready to set off to the elections.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 26
10  One day a son may be born, my son, and he will be legally a Karenin; he will not be the heir of my name nor of my property, and however happy we may be in our home life and however many children we may have, there will be no real tie between us.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 21
11  He knew that she had a husband, but had hardly believed in his existence, and only now fully believed in him, with his head and shoulders, and his legs clad in black trousers; especially when he saw this husband calmly take her arm with a sense of property.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 31
12  His ears were filled with the incessant hum in various notes, now the busy hum of the working bee flying quickly off, then the blaring of the lazy drone, and the excited buzz of the bees on guard protecting their property from the enemy and preparing to sting.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 14
13  Just as incontestably as it was necessary to repay a debt was it necessary to keep the property in such a condition that his son, when he received it as a heritage, would say "thank you" to his father as Levin had said "thank you" to his grandfather for all he built and planted.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 10
14  Madame Sviazhskaya had just told him at tea that they had that summer invited a German expert in bookkeeping from Moscow, who for a consideration of five hundred roubles had investigated the management of their property, and found that it was costing them a loss of three thousand odd roubles.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27
15  If it had not been for the distinctive property of anti-nihilistic influence on the side of classical studies, we should have considered the subject more, have weighed the arguments on both sides," said Sergey Ivanovitch with a subtle smile, "we should have given elbow-room to both tendencies.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10