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1  Every one was waiting for him to finish, and he felt it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
2  He paused near his compartment, waiting for her to get out.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 31
3  Vronsky was gazing at Anna, and with a fainting heart waiting for what she would say.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 7
4  He sat down again, waiting for other visitors to arrive, in order to retreat unnoticed.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
5  Princess Betsy drove home from the theater, without waiting for the end of the last act.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
6  But recollecting that his mother was waiting for him, he went back again into the carriage.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
7  Kamerovsky got up too, and Vronsky, not waiting for him to go, shook hands and went off to his dressing room.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 34
8  Dolly looked coldly at Anna; she was waiting now for phrases of conventional sympathy, but Anna said nothing of the sort.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
9  She was sitting on the terrace waiting for the return of her son, who had gone out for his walk and been caught in the rain.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
10  He went into his study to see the people waiting for him with petitions, and to sign some papers brought him by his chief secretary.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 33
11  Alexey Alexandrovitch, ready for his speech, stood compressing his crossed fingers, waiting to see if the crack would not come again.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
12  Behind him came a peasant, and he too was evidently tired, for he stopped at once without waiting to mow up to Levin, and began whetting his scythe.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 4
13  The old prince embraced Levin, and talking to him did not observe Vronsky, who had risen, and was serenely waiting till the prince should turn to him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
14  Levin wanted to, and could not, take part in the general conversation; saying to himself every instant, "Now go," he still did not go, as though waiting for something.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
15  He sat with his coat unbuttoned over a white waistcoat, resting both elbows on the table, and while waiting for the steak he had ordered he looked at a French novel that lay open on his plate.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 19
16  When he came back a few minutes later, Stepan Arkadyevitch was already in conversation with the countess about the new singer, while the countess was impatiently looking towards the door, waiting for her son.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
17  The greater number of the young women, who envied Anna and had long been weary of hearing her called virtuous, rejoiced at the fulfillment of their predictions, and were only waiting for a decisive turn in public opinion to fall upon her with all the weight of their scorn.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 18
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