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1  He has, no doubt, forgotten it and will wish to destroy it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
2  She seemed to wish, but to be unable, to diminish its effect.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
3  If you wish to kill him, to kill him outright, you can see him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
4  The little princess did not, or did not wish to, hear his words.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVII
5  I value your friendship and wish you to have as good an opinion of me.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
6  "I should wish for nothing else, nothing, if only I were there," thought Rostov.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
7  Perhaps I don't understand things, but Austria never has wished, and does not wish, for war.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
8  I have already told you, Papa," said his son, "that if you don't wish to let me go, I'll stay.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
9  "I will, your excellency," said Timokhin, showing by his smile that he understood his commander's wish.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
10  She said the count had died as she would herself wish to die, that his end was not only touching but edifying.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIV
11  Denisov sat gloomily biting his mustache and listening to the conversation, evidently with no wish to take part in it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
12  But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
13  The adjutant by his elaborate courtesy appeared to wish to ward off any attempt at familiarity on the part of the Russian messenger.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
14  And now, when one wants to smooth the thing over, some conceit prevents your apologizing, and you wish to make the whole affair public.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
15  "If they had known that you wished it, the entertainment would have been put off," said the prince, who, like a wound-up clock, by force of habit said things he did not even wish to be believed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I
16  It is neither more nor less than with Prince Vasili's son Anatole, whom they wish to reform by marrying him to someone rich and distinguee, and it is on you that his relations' choice has fallen.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
17  You value your own pride and don't wish to apologize," continued the staff captain, "but we old fellows, who have grown up in and, God willing, are going to die in the regiment, we prize the honor of the regiment, and Bogdanich knows it.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER V
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