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1  not only might but should, have gone up to the sovereign.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
2  Our gracious sovereign recognizes his high vocation and will be true to it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
3  Boris noticed Arakcheev's excited face when the sovereign went out with Balashev.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III
4  And the feeling of enthusiasm and love for his sovereign rose again in Rostov's soul in all its old force.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
5  Seeing that smile, Rostov involuntarily smiled himself and felt a still stronger flow of love for his sovereign.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
6  I am happy when I can do good, but to remedy injustice is the greatest happiness,' Rostov fancied the sovereign saying.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
7  When the old man began to speak too loud, Speranski smiled and said he could not judge of the advantage or disadvantage of what pleased the sovereign.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V
8  All the efforts of those who surrounded the sovereign seemed directed merely to making him spend his time pleasantly and forget that war was impending.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III
9  But not listening to what Firhoff was saying, he was gazing now at the sovereign and now at the men intending to dance who had not yet gathered courage to enter the circle.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XVI
10  Only recently, talking with one of Platov's Cossack officers, Rostov had argued that if Napoleon were taken prisoner he would be treated not as a sovereign, but as a criminal.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIX
11  Quite lately, happening to meet a wounded French colonel on the road, Rostov had maintained with heat that peace was impossible between a legitimate sovereign and the criminal Bonaparte.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIX
12  Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so-called Russian type of beauty.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER III
13  Weyrother again gave that smile which seemed to say that to him it was strange and ridiculous to meet objections from Russian generals and to have to prove to them what he had not merely convinced himself of, but had also convinced the sovereign Emperors of.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XII
14  All his wishes were being fulfilled that morning: there was to be a general engagement in which he was taking part, more than that, he was orderly to the bravest general, and still more, he was going with a message to Kutuzov, perhaps even to the sovereign himself.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVII
15  Incidents were related evidently confirming the opinion that everything was going from bad to worse, but whether telling a story or giving an opinion the speaker always stopped, or was stopped, at the point beyond which his criticism might touch the sovereign himself.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER III
16  He said that the Emperor Alexander did not consider Kurakin's demand for his passports a sufficient cause for war; that Kurakin had acted on his own initiative and without his sovereign's assent, that the Emperor Alexander did not desire war, and had no relations with England.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VI
17  Those speeches were intended for quite other conditions, they were for the most part to be spoken at a moment of victory and triumph, generally when he was dying of wounds and the sovereign had thanked him for heroic deeds, and while dying he expressed the love his actions had proved.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
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