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1  For the first time he realised clearly the distance between him and his son; he foresaw that every day it would grow wider and wider.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
2  Piotr, who as a modernised servant had not kissed the young master's hand, but only bowed to him from a distance, again vanished through the gateway.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
3  Before Nikolai Petrovitch she kept, as it were, at a distance from Bazarov; she acted in this way not from hypocrisy, but from a kind of feeling of propriety.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  The weather kept splendidly fine; in the distance, it is true, the cholera was threatening, but the inhabitants of that province had had time to get used to its visits.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X
5  Then I have the honour to lay the following proposition before you: The combat to take place early to-morrow, at six, let us say, behind the copse, with pistols, at a distance of ten paces.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  When he caught sight of Nikolai Petrovitch in the distance, he would fling a stick at a passing pig, or threaten a half-naked urchin, to show his zeal, but the rest of the time he was generally asleep.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII
7  The refined valet was mortally alarmed; but Bazarov soothed him by the assurance that he would have nothing to do but stand at a distance and look on, and that he would not incur any sort of responsibility.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
8  The country-house in which Anna Sergyevna lived stood on an exposed hill at no great distance from a yellow stone church with a green roof, white columns, and a fresco over the principal entrance representing the 'Resurrection of Christ' in the 'Italian' style.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI