1 Hurry off and tell Maksim, the gardener, to set the serfs to work.
2 At such moments Princess Mary would think how intellectual work dries men up.
3 That was all he thought about yesterday's ball, and after his morning tea he set to work.
4 He kept criticizing his own work, as he often did, and was glad when he heard someone coming.
5 But either from fatigue or want of sleep he was ill-disposed for work and could get nothing done.
6 In another place the women with infants in arms met him to thank him for releasing them from hard work.
7 Prince Andrew said that for that work an education in jurisprudence was needed which he did not possess.
8 The servant handed him a book which Pierre took to be a devotional work, and the traveler became absorbed in it.
9 He acknowledged no acquaintances but saw in all these men only brothers, and burned with impatience to set to work with them.
10 He pointed to his manuscript book with that air of escaping from the ills of life with which unhappy people look at their work.
11 He did not know that since the nursing mothers were no longer sent to work on his land, they did still harder work on their own land.
12 Her little feet in their white satin dancing shoes did their work swiftly, lightly, and independently of herself, while her face beamed with ecstatic happiness.
13 It now seemed clear to him that all his experience of life must be senselessly wasted unless he applied it to some kind of work and again played an active part in life.
14 we'll tack it up in one minute, said the resolute Dunyasha taking a needle that was stuck on the front of her little shawl and, still kneeling on the floor, set to work once more.
15 He did not know that where the steward had shown him in the accounts that the serfs' payments had been diminished by a third, their obligatory manorial work had been increased by a half.
16 Prince Andrew, as one closely connected with Speranski and participating in the work of the legislative commission, could give reliable information about that sitting, concerning which various rumors were current.
17 Then he vividly pictured to himself Bogucharovo, his occupations in the country, his journey to Ryazan; he remembered the peasants and Dron the village elder, and mentally applying to them the Personal Rights he had divided into paragraphs, he felt astonished that he could have spent so much time on such useless work.
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