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1  It had all gone to ruin, but Alexey had everything renewed.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 18
2  Yes," she went on, "become your mistress, and complete the ruin of.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 23
3  Socialism told him that development along these lines leads to ruin.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 29
4  What they advocated was the very pride of intellect that had almost been his ruin.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 16
5  Levin knew very well that "a touch of mildew" meant that his English seed oats were already ruined.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
6  The house on her own estate was quite in ruins, and Levin and his wife had persuaded her to spend the summer with them.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 1
7  He had thrown up everything, his career, me, and even then she had no mercy on him, but of set purpose she made his ruin complete.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 4
8  He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 3
9  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
10  But apart from this, what more than all made divorce seem impossible to Alexey Alexandrovitch was, that by consenting to a divorce he would be completely ruining Anna.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 22
11  No sort of necessity," she thought, "for a man to come and say good-bye to the woman he loves, for whom he was ready to ruin himself, and has ruined himself, and who cannot live without him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 20
12  No sort of necessity," she thought, "for a man to come and say good-bye to the woman he loves, for whom he was ready to ruin himself, and has ruined himself, and who cannot live without him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 20
13  A great deal more of what the gentleman with the gray whiskers said to show in what way Russia was ruined by the emancipation struck him indeed as very true, new to him, and quite incontestable.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27
14  The chief secretary of his department and his private secretary were aware of this, and used to warn women who came with petitions on no account to give way to tears, if they did not want to ruin their chances.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
15  In consequence of this, in the higher spheres, and even in society, all was chaos, and although everyone was interested, no one could tell whether the native tribes really were becoming impoverished and ruined, or whether they were in a flourishing condition.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 6
16  This brother Nikolay was the elder brother of Konstantin Levin, and half-brother of Sergey Ivanovitch; a man utterly ruined, who had dissipated the greater part of his fortune, was living in the strangest and lowest company, and had quarreled with his brothers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
17  He regarded Russia as a ruined country, rather after the style of Turkey, and the government of Russia as so bad that he never permitted himself to criticize its doings seriously, and yet he was a functionary of that government and a model marshal of nobility, and when he drove about he always wore the cockade of office and the cap with the red band.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
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