1 Bolkonski, very modestly without once mentioning himself, described the engagement and his reception by the Minister of War.
2 They talked of peace but did not believe in its possibility; others talked of a battle but also disbelieved in the nearness of an engagement.
3 "However, there will hardly be an engagement today," said Bagration as if to reassure Prince Andrew.
4 Evidently the affair was over and, though not big, had been a successful engagement.
5 "Yes, I saw him, and am convinced that he fears nothing so much as a general engagement," repeated Dolgorukov, evidently prizing this general conclusion which he had arrived at from his interview with Napoleon.
6 But in the secret depths of her soul the question whether her engagement to Boris was a jest or an important, binding promise tormented her.
7 No betrothal ceremony took place and Natasha's engagement to Bolkonski was not announced; Prince Andrew insisted on that.
8 After their engagement, quite different, intimate, and natural relations sprang up between them.
9 He informed her of his engagement to Natasha Rostova.
10 After Prince Andrew's engagement to Natasha, Pierre without any apparent cause suddenly felt it impossible to go on living as before.
11 Old Prince Bolkonski heard all the rumors current in the town from Mademoiselle Bourienne and had read the note to Princess Mary in which Natasha had broken off her engagement.
12 Princess Mary was the same as always, but beneath her sympathy for her brother, Pierre noticed her satisfaction that the engagement had been broken off.
13 Natasha's illness was so serious that, fortunately for her and for her parents, the consideration of all that had caused the illness, her conduct and the breaking off of her engagement, receded into the background.
14 Napoleon having cut our armies apart advanced far into the country and missed several chances of forcing an engagement.
15 The Tsarevich hinted at treachery and demanded a general engagement.