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1  But until death came she had to go on living, that is, to use her vital forces.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XII
2  Nicholas was with the Russian army in Paris when the news of his father's death reached him.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
3  She wanted nothing from life but tranquillity, and that tranquillity only death could give her.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XII
4  Count Ilya Rostov died that same year and, as always happens, after the father's death the family group broke up.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
5  And the exile, separated from the beloved France so dear to his heart, died a lingering death on that rock and bequeathed his great deeds to posterity.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 17: CHAPTER I
6  He felt that his way of life had now been settled once for all till death and that to change it was not in his power, and so that way of life proved economical.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XII
7  After the deaths of her son and husband in such rapid succession, she felt herself a being accidentally forgotten in this world and left without aim or object for her existence.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XII
8  The state of the count's affairs became quite obvious a month after his death, surprising everyone by the immense total of small debts the existence of which no one had suspected.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
9  His means increased rapidly; serfs from neighboring estates came to beg him to buy them, and long after his death the memory of his administration was devoutly preserved among the serfs.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
10  Within four years he had paid off all his remaining debts without selling any of his wife's property, and having received a small inheritance on the death of a cousin he paid his debt to Pierre as well.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER VII
11  The events of the previous year: the burning of Moscow and the flight from it, the death of Prince Andrew, Natasha's despair, Petya's death, and the old countess' grief fell blow after blow on the old count's head.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V