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1  But it was impossible to draw back.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 19
2  And in that tone it was impossible to say what needed to be said to her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 10
3  The place was taken, and whenever he tried to imagine any of the girls he knew in that place, he felt that it was utterly impossible.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 12
4  "One must let you drink your coffee in peace, at least," said Matvey, in the affectionately gruff tone with which it was impossible to be angry.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
5  She was conscious that it was impossible to go away; but, cheating herself, she went on all the same sorting out her things and pretending she was going.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
6  For a moment there would come a lull in the storm, but then it would swoop down again with such onslaughts that it seemed impossible to stand against it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 30
7  But he knew that by the etiquette of the race course it was not merely impossible for him to see the horse, but improper even to ask questions about him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
8  Over the ploughland riding was utterly impossible; the horse could only keep a foothold where there was ice, and in the thawing furrows he sank deep in at each step.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
9  In his own case, Alexey Alexandrovitch saw that a legal divorce, that is to say, one in which only the guilty wife would be repudiated, was impossible of attainment.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
10  And she was marveling that it had once seemed impossible to her, was explaining to them, laughing, that this was ever so much simpler, and that now both of them were happy and contented.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 11
11  To forget himself in sleep was impossible now, at least till nighttime; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter-women; so he must forget himself in the dream of daily life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 2
12  They tried to tell her what the doctor had said, but it appeared that though the doctor had talked distinctly enough and at great length, it was utterly impossible to report what he had said.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
13  She still continued to tell herself that she should leave him, but she was conscious that this was impossible; it was impossible because she could not get out of the habit of regarding him as her husband and loving him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
14  Though Anna had obstinately and with exasperation contradicted Vronsky when he told her their position was impossible, at the bottom of her heart she regarded her own position as false and dishonorable, and she longed with her whole soul to change it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 15
15  That which for Vronsky had been almost a whole year the one absorbing desire of his life, replacing all his old desires; that which for Anna had been an impossible, terrible, and even for that reason more entrancing dream of bliss, that desire had been fulfilled.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 11
16  But at the same time, he felt that the turning-point he had been longing for had come now; that it was impossible to go on concealing things from her husband, and it was inevitable in one way or another that they should soon put an end to their unnatural position.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
17  There was no place where they could bathe; the whole of the river-bank was trampled by the cattle and open to the road; even walks were impossible, for the cattle strayed into the garden through a gap in the hedge, and there was one terrible bull, who bellowed, and therefore might be expected to gore somebody.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7
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