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1 The order was to find a ford and to cross the river.
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2 Some forty uhlans were drowned in the river, though boats were sent to their assistance.
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3 Napoleon looked up and down the river, dismounted, and sat down on a log that lay on the bank.
War and Peace 3By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II
4 They were driving downhill and coming out upon a broad trodden track across a meadow, near a river.
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5 On reaching the broad river Viliya, he stopped near a regiment of Polish uhlans stationed by the river.
War and Peace 3By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER II
6 In evident fear of refusal, like a boy asking for permission to get on a horse, he begged to be allowed to swim across the river before the Emperor's eyes.
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7 The colonel of the Polish uhlans, a handsome old man, flushed and, fumbling in his speech from excitement, asked the aide-de-camp whether he would be permitted to swim the river with his uhlans instead of seeking a ford.
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8 As there was not a single town or large village in the vicinity of the camp, the immense number of generals and courtiers accompanying the army were living in the best houses of the villages on both sides of the river, over a radius of six miles.
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9 They tried to make their way forward to the opposite bank and, though there was a ford one third of a mile away, were proud that they were swimming and drowning in this river under the eyes of the man who sat on the log and was not even looking at what they were doing.
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10 Early in the morning of the twelfth of June he came out of his tent, which was pitched that day on the steep left bank of the Niemen, and looked through a spyglass at the streams of his troops pouring out of the Vilkavisski forest and flowing over the three bridges thrown across the river.
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