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1  Levin read in the queer, familiar handwriting: "I humbly beg you to leave me in peace."
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
2  He listened, and read his book, and recalled the whole train of ideas suggested by his reading.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 27
3  As the boy read, he kept twisting and trying to tear off a button that was nearly off his jacket.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
4  Levin read it, and without raising his head stood with the note in his hands opposite Sergey Ivanovitch.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
5  Alexey Alexandrovitch had not had time to read the pamphlet through in the evening, and finished it in the morning.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 26
6  Stepan Arkadyevitch took in and read a liberal paper, not an extreme one, but one advocating the views held by the majority.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
7  But there was no chance of doing anything; and twisting the smooth paper knife in her little hands, she forced herself to read.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
8  Tearing open the telegram, he read it through, guessing at the words, misspelt as they always are in telegrams, and his face brightened.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
9  He read another article, too, a financial one, which alluded to Bentham and Mill, and dropped some innuendoes reflecting on the ministry.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
10  Vronsky glanced at them, frowned, and looking down at his book as though he had not noticed them, he proceeded to eat and read at the same time.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 19
11  When the case had been read through, Stepan Arkadyevitch got up and stretched, and by way of tribute to the liberalism of the times took out a cigarette in the boardroom and went into his private room.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
12  Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural science student at the university.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
13  Her guests stepped out at the wide entrance, and the stout porter, who used to read the newspapers in the mornings behind the glass door, to the edification of the passers-by, noiselessly opened the immense door, letting the visitors pass by him into the house.
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
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15  She knew, too, that he was really interested in books dealing with politics, philosophy, and theology, that art was utterly foreign to his nature; but, in spite of this, or rather, in consequence of it, Alexey Alexandrovitch never passed over anything in the world of art, but made it his duty to read everything.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 33
16  Farther on, it was continually the same again and again: the same shaking and rattling, the same snow on the window, the same rapid transitions from steaming heat to cold, and back again to heat, the same passing glimpses of the same figures in the twilight, and the same voices, and Anna began to read and to understand what she read.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
17  He read the leading article, in which it was maintained that it was quite senseless in our day to raise an outcry that radicalism was threatening to swallow up all conservative elements, and that the government ought to take measures to crush the revolutionary hydra; that, on the contrary, "in our opinion the danger lies not in that fantastic revolutionary hydra, but in the obstinacy of traditionalism clogging progress," etc.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
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