1 'One ought so to order one's life that every moment in it should be of significance,' Arkady affirmed reflectively.
2 In the first place, I am not in the least good; and in the second place, I have lost all significance for you, and you tell me I am good.
3 When Pierre came up the count was gazing straight at him, but with a look the significance of which could not be understood by mortal man.
4 After the fatigues and impressions of the journey, his reception, and especially after having dined, Bolkonski felt that he could not take in the full significance of the words he heard.
5 Their powers of reasoning, feeling, and observing immediately increased tenfold, and their life, which seemed to have been passed in darkness, was suddenly lit up by a new brightness, full of significance.
6 She saw her husband, but did not realize the significance of his appearance before her now.
7 Then suddenly he realized the joyful significance of that wail; tears choked him, and leaning his elbows on the window sill be began to cry, sobbing like a child.
8 When conversation turned on her husband Helene assumed a dignified expression, which with characteristic tact she had acquired though she did not understand its significance.
9 A deed done is irrevocable, and its result coinciding in time with the actions of millions of other men assumes an historic significance.
10 Nothing outside himself had any significance for him, because everything in the world, it seemed to him, depended entirely on his will.
11 He knew that none of the words now uttered by Napoleon had any significance, and that Napoleon himself would be ashamed of them when he came to his senses.
12 "To his Honor Baron Asch, from General-in-Chief Prince Bolkonski," he announced with such solemnity and significance that the official turned to him and took the letters.
13 The roar of guns, that had not ceased for ten hours, wearied the ear and gave a peculiar significance to the spectacle, as music does to tableaux vivants.
14 That marriage lacked the dual significance it should have had.
15 At that moment this news had only one significance for both of them.