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1 Pierre turned back, giving a spring now and then to keep up with her.
War and Peace 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXIII
2 They gave little jumps as they walked, as though they were on springs.
War and Peace 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
3 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 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIX
4 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 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER I
5 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 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
6 A good many people had already arrived, but Anna Pavlovna, not yet seeing all those whom she wanted in her drawing room, did not let the reading begin but wound up the springs of a general conversation.
War and Peace 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I
7 Lightly swaying on the flexible springs of his carriage and no longer hearing the terrible sounds of the crowd, Rostopchin grew physically calm and, as always happens, as soon as he became physically tranquil his mind devised reasons why he should be mentally tranquil too.
War and Peace 4By Leo Tolstoy ContextHighlight In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
8 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.
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