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1  You must try and understand me.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
2  It cannot be, as I understand it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
3  You understood me, and you understand.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 28
4  I never could understand how it was a punishment.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
5  He did not understand how his pity for her exasperated her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
6  Some men only understand one sort, and some only the other.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 11
7  "In another world we shall understand it all," he said lightly.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 25
8  I can understand being carried away by feeling," she went on after a brief silence, "but deliberately, slyly deceiving me.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
9  Two or three people, your husband among them, understand all the importance of the thing, but the others simply drag it down.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 32
10  Vronsky could not understand how she, with her strong and truthful nature, could endure this state of deceit, and not long to get out of it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 23
11  "You understand everything, I see, and have taken stock of everything, and look with commiseration on my shortcomings," he began again, raising his voice.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 25
12  Yes, but joking apart," resumed Stepan Arkadyevitch, "you must understand that the woman is a sweet, gentle loving creature, poor and lonely, and has sacrificed everything.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 11
13  As a fact, the boy did feel that he could not understand this relation, and he tried painfully, and was not able to make clear to himself what feeling he ought to have for this man.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
14  By addressing his wife like this he gave Vronsky to understand that he wished to be left alone, and, turning slightly towards him, he touched his hat; but Vronsky turned to Anna Arkadyevna.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 31
15  Levin listened in silence, and in spite of all the efforts he made, he could not in the least enter into the feelings of his friend and understand his sentiments and the charm of studying such women.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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16  When he was present, both Vronsky and Anna did not merely avoid speaking of anything that they could not have repeated before everyone; they did not even allow themselves to refer by hints to anything the boy did not understand.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
17  Farther on, it was continually the same again and again: the same shaking and rattling, the same snow on the window, the same rapid transitions from steaming heat to cold, and back again to heat, the same passing glimpses of the same figures in the twilight, and the same voices, and Anna began to read and to understand what she read.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
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