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1  Blood was gushing from its leg as from a spring.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XX
2  Pierre turned back, giving a spring now and then to keep up with her.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
3  refused to yield to the charm of spring or notice either the spring or.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I
4  His health was better in the winter, but last spring his wound reopened and the doctor said he ought to go away for a cure.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XIV
5  To speak of what would have happened had Napoleon sent his Guards is like talking of what would happen if autumn became spring.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIX
6  Nicholas had replied that it would be more than enough for him and that he gave his word of honor not to take anything more till the spring.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIII
7  The southern spring, the comfortable rapid traveling in a Vienna carriage, and the solitude of the road, all had a gladdening effect on Pierre.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X
8  That spring a new disease broke out among the soldiers, a swelling of the arms, legs, and face, which the doctors attributed to eating this root.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XV
9  But in the spring of that year, he received a letter from his mother, written without his father's knowledge, and that letter persuaded him to return.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I
10  The peasants say that a cold wind blows in late spring because the oaks are budding, and really every spring cold winds do blow when the oak is budding.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I
11  The hay and the spring corn, of which Alpatych said there had been a remarkable crop that year, had been commandeered by the troops and mown down while still green.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
12  In regard to which I humbly submit my report, with the information that if the army remains in its present bivouac another fortnight there will not be a healthy man left in it by spring.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IX
13  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
14  The verdure had thickened and its bright green stood out sharply against the brownish strips of winter rye trodden down by the cattle, and against the pale-yellow stubble of the spring buckwheat.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
15  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
16  I see only a coincidence of occurrences such as happens with all the phenomena of life, and I see that however much and however carefully I observe the hands of the watch, and the valves and wheels of the engine, and the oak, I shall not discover the cause of the bells ringing, the engine moving, or of the winds of spring.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I
17  They called him in to decide family disputes, chose him as executor, confided secrets to him, elected him to be a justice and to other posts; but he always persistently refused public appointments, passing the autumn and spring in the fields on his bay gelding, sitting at home in winter, and lying in his overgrown garden in summer.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VII
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