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1  Whatever we may say about the soul going to the sky.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI
2  Above the heights was the dark clear sky, and to the right the vast orb of the sun.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
3  Prince Andrew leaned his elbows on the window ledge and his eyes rested on that sky.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II
4  It was frosty and the air was sharp, but toward evening the sky became overcast and it began to thaw.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
5  His head was burning, he felt himself bleeding to death, and he saw above him the remote, lofty, and everlasting sky.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
6  Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
7  Above him was a clear blue sky, and the sun's vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
8  This unpleasant impression merely flitted over the young and happy face of the Emperor like a cloud of haze across a clear sky and vanished.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
9  Nicholas Rostov turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the sun.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
10  Warmed by the spring sunshine he sat in the caleche looking at the new grass, the first leaves on the birches, and the first puffs of white spring clouds floating across the clear blue sky.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I
11  We must live, we must love, and we must believe that we live not only today on this scrap of earth, but have lived and shall live forever, there, in the Whole, said Pierre, and he pointed to the sky.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII
12  "First-rate," said Pierre, looking at Dolokhov, who with a bottle of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
13  On the fifteenth, when young Rostov, in his dressing gown, looked out of the window, he saw it was an unsurpassable morning for hunting: it was as if the sky were melting and sinking to the earth without any wind.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
14  Farther back beyond the dark trees a roof glittered with dew, to the right was a leafy tree with brilliantly white trunk and branches, and above it shone the moon, nearly at its full, in a pale, almost starless, spring sky.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER II
15  Visions of his father, wife, sister, and future son, and the tenderness he had felt the night before the battle, the figure of the insignificant little Napoleon, and above all this the lofty sky, formed the chief subjects of his delirious fancies.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
16  So insignificant at that moment seemed to him all the interests that engrossed Napoleon, so mean did his hero himself with his paltry vanity and joy in victory appear, compared to the lofty, equitable, and kindly sky which he had seen and understood, that he could not answer him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
17  "However, it is time to get on," he added, and, stepping off the raft, he looked up at the sky to which Pierre had pointed, and for the first time since Austerlitz saw that high, everlasting sky he had seen while lying on that battlefield; and something that had long been slumbering, something that was best within him, suddenly awoke, joyful and youthful, in his soul.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII
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