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1  He purposely avoided looking in her direction.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 33
2  This definitely expressed purpose astonished Levin.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
3  Oh, I stepped on the rug before Vassily on purpose.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 5
4  These words and the ideas associated with them were very well for intellectual purposes.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 8
5  He saw where his boat leaked, but he did not look for the leak, perhaps purposely deceiving himself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 24
6  But their hostess appeared not to observe this, and kept purposely drawing her into the conversation.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
7  It serves me right, because it was all sham; because it was all done on purpose, and not from the heart.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 35
8  At that moment she knew beyond doubt that he had come early on purpose to find her alone and to make her an offer.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 13
9  He had thrown up everything, his career, me, and even then she had no mercy on him, but of set purpose she made his ruin complete.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 4
10  So at least it seemed to Vronsky, just as it seems to a man with a sore finger that he is continually, as though on purpose, grazing his sore finger on everything.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 28
11  The prince, on the contrary, thought everything foreign detestable, got sick of European life, kept to his Russian habits, and purposely tried to show himself abroad less European than he was in reality.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
12  There were little go-carts ordered from England, and appliances for learning to walk, and a sofa after the fashion of a billiard table, purposely constructed for crawling, and swings and baths, all of special pattern, and modern.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 19
13  She went into the dining room on the pretext of giving some directions, and spoke loudly on purpose, expecting him to come out there; but he did not come, though she heard him go to the door of his study as he parted from the chief secretary.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 23
14  But what he liked particularly was the way in which at once, as though on purpose that there might be no misunderstanding with an outsider, she called Vronsky simply Alexey, and said they were moving into a house they had just taken, what was here called a palazzo.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
15  He thought that the Russian people whose task it was to colonize and cultivate vast tracts of unoccupied land, consciously adhered, till all their land was occupied, to the methods suitable to their purpose, and that their methods were by no means so bad as was generally supposed.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 29
16  Moreover, it was apparent also that the harrows and all the agricultural implements, which he had directed to be looked over and repaired in the winter, for which very purpose he had hired three carpenters, had not been put into repair, and the harrows were being repaired when they ought to have been harrowing the field.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
17  In spite of his assertion to the contrary, she was firmly persuaded that he was as much a Christian as she, and indeed a far better one; and all that he said about it was simply one of his absurd masculine freaks, just as he would say about her broderie anglaise that good people patch holes, but that she cut them on purpose, and so on.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 19
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