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1  A roll of unfolded notes done up in a wrapper fell out of it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 16
2  Levin, rejecting the roll, put on his coat and went out again for a walk.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 15
3  Varenka came, however, in the evening and brought a roll of music with her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 32
4  At last the passenger carriages rolled in, oscillating before coming to a standstill.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 17
5  "Well, we crumble it up," answered Vassily, taking up some seed and rolling the earth in his palms.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
6  He was silent, and his eyes rested on the wheels of the tender, slowly and smoothly rolling along the rails.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 5
7  Levin tried to drink coffee and put some roll in his mouth, but his mouth was quite at a loss what to do with the roll.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 15
8  The instant his lips came together they curved into a blissfully sleepy smile, and with that smile he slowly and deliciously rolled back again.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 29
9  The players, divided into two parties, stood on opposite sides of a tightly drawn net with gilt poles on the carefully leveled and rolled croquet-ground.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 22
10  Slowly and inquiringly he looked for several seconds at his mother standing motionless before him, then all at once he smiled a blissful smile, and shutting his eyes, rolled not backwards but towards her into her arms.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 29
11  The train, jerking at regular intervals at the junctions of the rails, rolled by the platform, past a stone wall, a signal-box, past other trains; the wheels, moving more smoothly and evenly, resounded with a slight clang on the rails.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 31
12  Smiling sleepily still with closed eyes, he flung fat little arms round her shoulders, rolled towards her, with the delicious sleepy warmth and fragrance that is only found in children, and began rubbing his face against her neck and shoulders.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 29
13  A few instants later the platform was quivering, and with puffs of steam hanging low in the air from the frost, the engine rolled up, with the lever of the middle wheel rhythmically moving up and down, and the stooping figure of the engine-driver covered with frost.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 17
14  Her dress was not uncomfortable anywhere; her lace berthe did not droop anywhere; her rosettes were not crushed nor torn off; her pink slippers with high, hollowed-out heels did not pinch, but gladdened her feet; and the thick rolls of fair chignon kept up on her head as if they were her own hair.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22