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1  Don't imagine that sorrow is the work of men.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
2  For the same reason they are always hard at work and in a hurry.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER V
3  Every sphere of work was connected, in his eyes, with evil and deception.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
4  But with "his gentlemen" he always drove himself and never demanded anything for his work.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XVI
5  A fourth while seemingly overwhelmed with work would often come accidentally under the Emperor's eye.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IX
6  This adjutant was also there and sat dozing on the rolled-up bedding, evidently exhausted by work or by feasting.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER X
7  Her whole house was scrubbed and cleaned on Saturdays; neither she nor the servants worked, and they all wore holiday dress and went to church.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII
8  "Anybody can shove," said the footman, and also began working his elbows to such effect that he pushed Petya into a very filthy corner of the gateway.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXI
9  As a general on duty on Kutuzov's staff, he applied himself to business with zeal and perseverance and surprised Kutuzov by his willingness and accuracy in work.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
10  Natasha set to work to effect a reconciliation, and so far succeeded that Nicholas received a promise from his mother that Sonya should not be troubled, while he on his side promised not to undertake anything without his parents' knowledge.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER XIII
11  The count moved in his affairs as in a huge net, trying not to believe that he was entangled but becoming more and more so at every step, and feeling too feeble to break the meshes or to set to work carefully and patiently to disentangle them.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII
12  As soon as Prince Andrew had given up his daily occupations, and especially on returning to the old conditions of life amid which he had been happy, weariness of life overcame him with its former intensity, and he hastened to escape from these memories and to find some work as soon as possible.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
13  On her way home at an early hour when she met no one but bricklayers going to work or men sweeping the street, and everybody within the houses was still asleep, Natasha experienced a feeling new to her, a sense of the possibility of correcting her faults, the possibility of a new, clean life, and of happiness.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVII