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1  Yes, he is a fine fellow and a very kind relation.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV
2  Forgive my vanity as a relation, but I never doubted it.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXV
3  Because he is young, because he is poor, because he is a relation.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIII
4  And when she asked herself what distressed her, she had to admit that it was her relation to Rostov.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VI
5  All that is accessible to man is the relation of the life of the bee to other manifestations of life.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
6  And these are the three ways in which the historians do explain the relation of the people to their rulers.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER IV
7  To her consternation she detected in herself in relation to little Nicholas some symptoms of her father's irritability.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER II
8  He forgot that what he was saying about Natasha could have been applied word for word to himself in relation to his wife.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XV
9  Not only was the paper money valueless which Napoleon so graciously distributed to the unfortunate, but even silver lost its value in relation to gold.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER X
10  Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER V
11  This officer, a lad of sixteen who had recently joined the regiment, was now in the same relation to Nicholas that Nicholas had been to Denisov seven years before.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
12  L'amour which the Frenchman worshiped consisted principally in the unnaturalness of his relation to the woman and in a combination of incongruities giving the chief charm to the feeling.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIX
13  My dear Princess Catherine Semenovna," began Prince Vasili impatiently, "I came here not to wrangle with you, but to talk about your interests as with a kinswoman, a good, kind, true relation.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
14  So that examining the relation in time of the commands to the events, we find that a command can never be the cause of the event, but that a certain definite dependence exists between the two.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER VI
15  Marya Ignatevna Peronskaya, a thin and shallow maid of honor at the court of the Dowager Empress, who was a friend and relation of the countess and piloted the provincial Rostovs in Petersburg high society, was to accompany them to the ball.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIV
16  But by the time this letter, which proved that the real relation of the forces had already made itself felt in Petersburg, was dispatched, Kutuzov had found himself unable any longer to restrain the army he commanded from attacking and a battle had taken place.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III
17  Undoubtedly some relation exists between all who live contemporaneously, and so it is possible to find some connection between the intellectual activity of men and their historical movements, just as such a connection may be found between the movements of humanity and commerce, handicraft, gardening, or anything else you please.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER II
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