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1  Bilibin puckered his skin in preparation for something witty.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VII
2  In the entry there was a smell of fresh apples, and wolf and fox skins hung about.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
3  Bilibin wrinkled up the skin over his eyebrows and pondered, with a smile on his lips.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER VII
4  And should your Serene Highness require a man who will not spare his skin, please think of me.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXII
5  A little ahead of them walked a peasant guide, wet to the skin and wearing a gray peasant coat and a white knitted cap.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
6  In their service he risked his skin and his life twenty times a year, and in their service had lost more horses than the money he had from them would buy.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI
7  These men, who under the leadership of the tall lad were drinking in the dramshop that morning, had brought the publican some skins from the factory and for this had had drink served them.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXIII
8  He sat rather sideways in the armchair next to the countess, arranging with his right hand the cleanest of gloves that fitted his left hand like a skin, and he spoke with a particularly refined compression of his lips about the amusements of the highest Petersburg society, recalling with mild irony old times in Moscow and Moscow acquaintances.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XII