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1  Both these women quite sincerely tried to make her look pretty.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
2  And that stupid set without whom my wife cannot exist, and those women.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII
3  If at least we had some women here; but there's nothing foh one to do but dwink.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
4  "We women, Prince," and she smiled tenderly, "always know how to say these things."
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XV
5  Every face bore almost the same smile, expressing unseemly thoughts about the women.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
6  She paused, as women always do, expecting something after they have mentioned their age.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I
7  Nesvitski like the rest of the men on the bridge did not take his eyes off the women till they had passed.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
8  Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; the men and women had separated as in church.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXIII
9  The Italian's face instantly changed and assumed an offensively affected, sugary expression, evidently habitual to him when conversing with women.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER III
10  The eyes of all the soldiers turned toward the women, and while the vehicle was passing at foot pace all the soldiers' remarks related to the two young ones.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
11  Although in female society Anatole usually assumed the role of a man tired of being run after by women, his vanity was flattered by the spectacle of his power over these three women.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
12  I can't understand why he wants to go to the war, replied Pierre, addressing the princess with none of the embarrassment so commonly shown by young men in their intercourse with young women.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VII
13  Prince Andrew evidently felt ill at ease, but to the two women it seemed quite natural that they should cry, and apparently it never entered their heads that it could have been otherwise at this meeting.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVI
14  She was so plain that neither of them could think of her as a rival, so they began dressing her with perfect sincerity, and with the naive and firm conviction women have that dress can make a face pretty.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
15  As always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time without male society, on Anatole's appearance all the three women of Prince Bolkonski's household felt that their life had not been real till then.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
16  "I know the will was made, but I also know that it is invalid; and you, mon cousin, seem to consider me a perfect fool," said the princess with the expression women assume when they suppose they are saying something witty and stinging.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI
17  The two women let go of one another, and then, as if afraid of being too late, seized each other's hands, kissing them and pulling them away, and again began kissing each other on the face, and then to Prince Andrew's surprise both began to cry and kissed again.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXVI
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