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1  Oblonsky could not restrain a slight mocking smile at the sight of Levin.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
2  "I never boast, and I never tell lies," he said slowly, restraining his rising anger.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 24
3  Kitty saw that Varenka could hardly restrain a smile at the idea that she needed an escort.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 32
4  Smiling, hardly able to restrain his tears, Levin kissed his wife and went out of the dark room.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 16
5  And though he had promised Alexey Alexandrovitch not to speak of Anna, he could not restrain himself.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 19
6  Lvov visibly tried to restrain the expression of his delight, but he was positively radiant with smiles.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 4
7  Alexey Alexandrovitch gave him his hand, not attempting to restrain the tears that streamed from his eyes.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 17
8  "You know," she said, and at the same instant, unable to restrain herself any longer, she burst into sobs.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 24
9  While her mother was attacking her father, she tried to restrain her mother, so far as filial reverence would allow.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
10  But his face was so piteous, that she restrained her vexation, and flinging some clothes off an arm-chair, she sat down beside him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 2
11  "Oh, yes, yes; make haste, please," answered Levin, with difficulty restraining the smile of rapture which would overspread his face.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
12  Levin, in feverish haste, could not restrain himself, got more and more out of temper, and ended by shooting almost without a hope of hitting.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 10
13  But even though she knew it was her own ruin, she could not restrain herself, could not keep herself from proving to him that he was wrong, could not give way to him.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 24
14  Madame Karenina seated herself in the carriage, and Stepan Arkadyevitch saw with surprise that her lips were quivering, and she was with difficulty restraining her tears.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
15  The doctor was meantime with difficulty restraining the expression of his contempt for this old gentleman, and with difficulty condescending to the level of his intelligence.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
16  When Levin went into the restaurant with Oblonsky, he could not help noticing a certain peculiarity of expression, as it were, a restrained radiance, about the face and whole figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 10
17  Just as the bees, whirling round him, now menacing him and distracting his attention, prevented him from enjoying complete physical peace, forced him to restrain his movements to avoid them, so had the petty cares that had swarmed about him from the moment he got into the trap restricted his spiritual freedom; but that lasted only so long as he was among them.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 14
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