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1  He had long ago ceased to wish for the child.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 15
2  She said herself she did not wish to change her position.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
3  I wish I might have the luck at cards he has with horses.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 7
4  Forgive I cannot, and do not wish to, and I regard it as wrong.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 12
5  She had no wish to hide from him all the bitterness of her position.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 10
6  "If you so much wish it, I will come," said Alexey Alexandrovitch, sighing.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 8
7  If there were a trace of humanity left in her, she ought not to wish for it herself.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 25
8  What it was he did not see and did not comprehend, and he had no wish to see or comprehend.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 15
9  I cared for him, and he cared for me; but his mother did not wish it, and he married another girl.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 32
10  I apply to you and not to Alexey Alexandrovitch, simply because I do not wish to cause that generous man to suffer in remembering me.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 23
11  Tell your wife that I love her as before, and that if she cannot pardon me my position, then my wish for her is that she may never pardon it.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 7: Chapter 10
12  "That my wish coincides with your own," she finished quickly, exasperated at his talking so slowly while she knew beforehand all he would say.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 20
13  Vronsky saw from her eyes that she did not know on what terms he cared to be with Golenishtchev, and so was afraid of not behaving as he would wish.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
14  She could not frame a thought, not a wish apart from life with this man; but this new life was not yet, and she could not even picture it clearly to herself.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 4
15  Anna, folding her fan and tapping it on the red velvet, was gazing away and did not see, and obviously did not wish to see, what was taking place in the next box.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 33
16  He felt vexed with his wife for not being anxious about this exquisite baby, and in this vexed humor he had no wish to go to her; he had no wish, either, to see Princess Betsy.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 19
17  However many women and girls he thought of whom he knew, he could not think of a girl who united to such a degree all, positively all, the qualities he would wish to see in his wife.
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ContextHighlight   In PART 6: Chapter 4
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