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1  The next morning she received his letter and regretted her own.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 32
2  They regret it deeply, and beg you to overlook their misbehavior.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 5
3  She seemed struggling between regret at waking him, and the desire to talk to him.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 13
4  Levin got on his horse and, parting regretfully from the peasants, rode homewards.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 6
5  At last, as it were regretfully tearing himself away, he dropped the cloth, and, exhausted but happy, went home.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 12
6  Turovtsin exploded in a loud roar of laughter and Sergey Ivanovitch regretted that he had not made this comparison.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 10
7  Vronsky went up to Kitty reminding her of the first quadrille, and expressing his regret that he had not seen her all this time.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
8  In the morning she had regretted that she had spoken to her husband, and wished for nothing so much as that those words could be unspoken.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 16
9  One thing he could not pluck out of his heart, though he never ceased struggling with it, was the regret, amounting to despair, that he had lost her forever.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 23
10  "In that case he would have done wrong, and I should not have regretted him," answered Varenka, evidently realizing that they were now talking not of her, but of Kitty.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 32
11  And though he liked them all, he rather regretted his own Levin world and ways, which was smothered by this influx of the "Shtcherbatsky element," as he called it to himself.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 1
12  And just the same feeling of shame and regret he felt now, as he reviewed all his past with her, recalling the awkward words in which, after long wavering, he had made her an offer.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 25
13  At this moment Anna was positively admitting to herself that she was a burden to him, that he would relinquish his freedom regretfully to return to her, and in spite of that she was glad he was coming.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 32
14  Leaving his tea, and regretfully interrupting the interesting conversation, and at the same time uneasily wondering why he had been sent for, as this only happened on important occasions, Levin went to the nursery.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 18
15  It was an inner irritation, grounded in her mind on the conviction that his love had grown less; in his, on regret that he had put himself for her sake in a difficult position, which she, instead of lightening, made still more difficult.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 23
16  Thinking over what he would say, he somewhat regretted that he should have to use his time and mental powers for domestic consumption, with so little to show for it, but, in spite of that, the form and contents of the speech before him shaped itself as clearly and distinctly in his head as a ministerial report.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
17  Some of the very peasants who had been most active in wrangling with him over the hay, some whom he had treated with contumely, and who had tried to cheat him, those very peasants had greeted him goodhumoredly, and evidently had not, were incapable of having any feeling of rancor against him, any regret, any recollection even of having tried to deceive him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
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