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1  It was like a successfully arranged surprise.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER II
2  not fully successful, only because our troops were rearranged too near the enemy.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IV
3  In former battles he had only considered the possibilities of success, but now innumerable unlucky chances presented themselves, and he expected them all.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIV
4  He could not stop what was going on before him and around him and was supposed to be directed by him and to depend on him, and from its lack of success this affair, for the first time, seemed to him unnecessary and horrible.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXIV
5  Not only did his reason not reproach him for what he had done, but he even found cause for self-satisfaction in having so successfully contrived to avail himself of a convenient opportunity to punish a criminal and at the same time pacify the mob.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
6  His aim was as clear as daylight to Kutuzov: if the defense failed, to throw the blame on Kutuzov who had brought the army as far as the Sparrow Hills without giving battle; if it succeeded, to claim the success as his own; or if battle were not given, to clear himself of the crime of abandoning Moscow.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER III
7  At Anna Pavlovna's they talked with perplexity of Bonaparte's successes just as before and saw in them and in the subservience shown to him by the European sovereigns a malicious conspiracy, the sole object of which was to cause unpleasantness and anxiety to the court circle of which Anna Pavlovna was the representative.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER VI
8  "But he could not understand this," cried Prince Andrew in a shrill voice that seemed to escape him involuntarily: "he could not understand that there, for the first time, we were fighting for Russian soil, and that there was a spirit in the men such as I had never seen before, that we had held the French for two days, and that that success had increased our strength tenfold."
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXV