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1  I attach particular significance to compliance.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 16
2  Every word in his conversation with her had a special significance.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 10
3  Kitty had repeated this without attaching any significance to the words.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
4  But the Moscow significance of the word "honest" was lost on Alexey Alexandrovitch.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 17
5  I beg you to note that I attach particular significance to compliance with this request.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
6  But Alexey Alexandrovitch did not now attach any special significance to this tone of hers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 27
7  He too was silent for some time, and then began speaking in a frigid, less shrill voice, emphasizing random words that had no special significance.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 4
8  Today all the significance of his book rose before him with special distinctness, and whole periods ranged themselves in his mind in illustration of his theories.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
9  Levin scowled, and without answering her, he sat down again to his work, repeating to himself all that he had been thinking of the real significance of that work.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
10  Levin did not agree with Pestsov, nor with his brother, who had a special attitude of his own, both admitting and not admitting the significance of the Russian commune.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 13
11  He was fond of talking about Shakespeare, Raphael, Beethoven, of the significance of new schools of poetry and music, all of which were classified by him with very conspicuous consistency.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 33
12  The inspection of objects of interest, apart from the fact that everything had been seen already, had not for Vronsky, a Russian and a sensible man, the immense significance Englishmen are able to attach to that pursuit.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 8
13  And all the theories of the significance of the Slav element in the history of the world seemed to him so trivial compared with what was passing in his own soul, that he instantly forgot it all and dropped back into the same frame of mind that he had been in that morning.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 18
14  Since his marriage there had been revealed to Levin so many new and serious aspects of life that had previously, through his frivolous attitude to them, seemed of no importance, that in the question of the elections too he assumed and tried to find some serious significance.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 26
15  And consequently, not being able to believe in the significance of what he was doing nor to regard it with indifference as an empty formality, during the whole period of preparing for the sacrament he was conscious of a feeling of discomfort and shame at doing what he did not himself understand, and what, as an inner voice told him, was therefore false and wrong.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 1
16  Both knew, without a shade of doubt, what sort of thing life was and what was death, and though neither of them could have answered, and would even not have understood the questions that presented themselves to Levin, both had no doubt of the significance of this event, and were precisely alike in their way of looking at it, which they shared with millions of people.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 19
17  During the quadrille nothing of any significance was said: there was disjointed talk between them of the Korsunskys, husband and wife, whom he described very amusingly, as delightful children at forty, and of the future town theater; and only once the conversation touched her to the quick, when he asked her about Levin, whether he was here, and added that he liked him so much.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 23
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