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1  And he did his work, giving his whole strength to the task.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVI
2  Karataev thanked the Frenchman for the money and went on admiring his own work.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
3  They gave him some more porridge and Morel with a laugh set to work on his third bowl.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER IX
4  Karataev, on account of the warm weather and for convenience at work, was wearing only trousers and a tattered shirt as black as soot.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
5  In front, at a weary gallop and using his leather whip, rode an officer, disheveled and drenched, whose trousers had worked up to above his knees.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER IV
6  Tikhon, who at first did rough work, laying campfires, fetching water, flaying dead horses, and so on, soon showed a great liking and aptitude for partisan warfare.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER V
7  There was within him a deep unexpressed conviction that all would be well, but that one must not trust to this and still less speak about it, but must only attend to one's own work.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVI
8  "You see, dear man, this is not a sewing shop, and I had no proper tools; and, as they say, one needs a tool even to kill a louse," said Platon with one of his round smiles, obviously pleased with his work.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XI
9  It is natural for a man who does not understand the workings of a machine to imagine that a shaving that has fallen into it by chance and is interfering with its action and tossing about in it is its most important part.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XV
10  The man who does not understand the construction of the machine cannot conceive that the small connecting cogwheel which revolves quietly is one of the most essential parts of the machine, and not the shaving which merely harms and hinders the working.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XV