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1  A little serf boy, seeing Prince Andrew, ran into the house.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
2  "He says 'a woman,' and Mary Nikolievna is a lady," remarked a house serf.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
3  Two young citizens were joking with some serf girls who were cracking nuts.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXI
4  The domestic serfs were crowding in the hall, waiting to bid good-by to the young prince.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVIII
5  The prince went through the conservatories, the serfs' quarters, and the outbuildings, frowning and silent.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
6  That same evening a house serf who had come from Borovsk said he had seen an immense army entering the town.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XV
7  Then came a cart, and behind that walked an old, bandy-legged domestic serf in a peaked cap and sheepskin coat.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
8  The third was a domestic serf, about forty-five years old, with grizzled hair and a plump, well-nourished body.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER XI
9  Nicholas knew that this Daniel, disdainful of everybody and who considered himself above them, was all the same his serf and huntsman.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
10  When Nicholas first began farming and began to understand its different branches, it was the serf who especially attracted his attention.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
11  It had bare deal floors and was furnished with very simple hard sofas, armchairs, tables, and chairs made by their own serf carpenters out of their own birchwood.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VIII
12  Sonya, Natasha, Petya, Anna Mikhaylovna, Vera, and the old count were all hugging him, and the serfs, men and maids, flocked into the room, exclaiming and oh-ing and ah-ing.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I
13  After marching through a number of streets the patrol arrested five more Russian suspects: a small shopkeeper, two seminary students, a peasant, and a house serf, besides several looters.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIV
14  Several adjutants galloped off, and an hour later, Lavrushka, the serf Denisov had handed over to Rostov, rode up to Napoleon in an orderly's jacket and on a French cavalry saddle, with a merry, and tipsy face.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VII
15  With those about him, from his daughter to his serfs, the prince was sharp and invariably exacting, so that without being a hardhearted man he inspired such fear and respect as few hardhearted men would have aroused.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
16  On the one hand, the chief steward put the state of things to him in the very worst light, pointing out the necessity of paying off the debts and undertaking new activities with serf labor, to which Pierre did not agree.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X
17  When a decision had to be taken regarding a domestic serf, especially if one had to be punished, he always felt undecided and consulted everybody in the house; but when it was possible to have a domestic serf conscripted instead of a land worker he did so without the least hesitation.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
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