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1  "Oh, not over my husband," she said, with a quiet smile.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
2  Ivan jumped down and took the quiet, sleek horse by the bridle.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
3  And she sang it just as quietly, as coolly, and as well as the others.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 32
4  The sick man fell into a quiet sleep, but he was waked up half an hour later by his cough.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
5  Linon, and looked towards him with a smile of quiet affection, as though he were a favorite brother.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
6  The two footmen and Matvey, in white cravats, did their duty with the dishes and wines unobtrusively, quietly, and swiftly.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 9
7  The ironical light died away in her eyes, but a different smile, a consciousness of something, he did not know what, and of quiet melancholy, came over her face.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 3
8  He was a quiet, modest fellow, unmistakably impressed by the knowledge of the officer and the heroic self-sacrifice of the merchant and saying nothing about himself.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 3
9  In spite of her elegance, everything was so simple, quiet, and dignified in the attitude, the dress and the movements of Anna, that nothing could have been more natural.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 17
10  Petritsky, who knew he was ill-tempered on such occasions, on waking up and seeing his comrade at the writing-table, quietly dressed and went out without getting in his way.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 19
11  The thought that if he were held in check by her tone of quiet friendliness he would end by going back again without deciding anything came into his mind, and he resolved to make a struggle against it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
12  As no one was paying any attention to him, and no one apparently needed him, he quietly slipped away into the little room where the refreshments were, and again had a great sense of comfort when he saw the waiters.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 30
13  Vronsky was not merely acquainted with all the persons whom he was meeting here; he saw them all every day; and so he came in with the quiet manner with which one enters a room full of people from whom one has only just parted.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
14  He read, too, that Count Beist was rumored to have left for Wiesbaden, and that one need have no more gray hair, and of the sale of a light carriage, and of a young person seeking a situation; but these items of information did not give him, as usual, a quiet, ironical gratification.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
15  Anna, quietly walking her horse, a sturdy English cob with cropped mane and short tail, her beautiful head with her black hair straying loose under her high hat, her full shoulders, her slender waist in her black riding habit, and all the ease and grace of her deportment, impressed Dolly.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 17
16  She had risen to meet him, not concealing her pleasure at seeing him; and in the quiet ease with which she held out her little vigorous hand, introduced him to Vorkuev and indicated a red-haired, pretty little girl who was sitting at work, calling her her pupil, Levin recognized and liked the manners of a woman of the great world, always self-possessed and natural.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 10