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1  From his tone both Kitty and Anna knew that a reconciliation had taken place.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 21
2  "God knows whether they are fully reconciled," thought Anna, hearing her tone, cold and composed.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 21
3  I shall not be alone at dinner again, Alexey Alexandrovitch went on, no longer in a sarcastic tone.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 31
4  So we were saying the problem may be put thus: to maintain nutrition and to give tone to the nerves.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 1
5  Involuntarily he talked to her in his habitual tone of jeering at anyone who should say what he was saying.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
6  She spoke, and marveled at the confident, calm, and natural tone in which she was speaking, and the choice of the words she used.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 9
7  "One must let you drink your coffee in peace, at least," said Matvey, in the affectionately gruff tone with which it was impossible to be angry.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
8  The prince apparently had plenty more to say, but as soon as the princess heard his tone she subsided at once, and became penitent, as she always did on serious occasions.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
9  "No, I am not going to stay," answered Anna, smiling, but in spite of her smile, both Korsunsky and the master of the house saw from her resolute tone that she would not stay.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 23
10  Most fortunate, he said to his wife, dismissing Vronsky altogether, that I should just have half an hour to meet you, so that I can prove my devotion, he went on in the same jesting tone.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 31
11  The thought that if he were held in check by her tone of quiet friendliness he would end by going back again without deciding anything came into his mind, and he resolved to make a struggle against it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
12  Vronsky heard with pleasure this light-hearted prattle of a pretty woman, agreed with her, gave her half-joking counsel, and altogether dropped at once into the tone habitual to him in talking to such women.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 34
13  Feeling probably that the conversation was taking a tone too serious for a drawing room, Vronsky made no rejoinder, but by way of trying to change the conversation, he smiled brightly, and turned to the ladies.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
14  Glancing at his wife and Vronsky, he went up to the lady of the house, and sitting down for a cup of tea, began talking in his deliberate, always audible voice, in his habitual tone of banter, ridiculing someone.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
15  The whole evening Dolly was, as always, a little mocking in her tone to her husband, while Stepan Arkadyevitch was happy and cheerful, but not so as to seem as though, having been forgiven, he had forgotten his offense.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 21
16  But every time he began talking to her, he felt that the spirit of evil and deceit, which had taken possession of her, had possession of him too, and he talked to her in a tone quite unlike that in which he had meant to talk.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
17  "Yes, as you see, your tender spouse, as devoted as the first year after marriage, burned with impatience to see you," he said in his deliberate, high-pitched voice, and in that tone which he almost always took with her, a tone of jeering at anyone who should say in earnest what he said.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 30
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