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1  It was thawing and misty; at forty paces' distance nothing could be seen.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV
2  Rostov stood at that corner for a long time, watching the feast from a distance.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XXI
3  "Friendship laughs at distance," began Prince Vasili in his usual rapid, self-confident, familiar tone.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IV
4  The regimental commander walked with his jerky steps to the front of the regiment and examined it from a distance.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
5  "No really, my dear, this dress is not pretty," said Lise, looking sideways at Princess Mary from a little distance.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III
6  Behind Kutuzov, at a distance that allowed every softly spoken word to be heard, followed some twenty men of his suite.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
7  Nicholas sat at some distance from Sonya, beside Julie Karagina, to whom he was again talking with the same involuntary smile.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII
8  His neighbor on the other side, who lay motionless some distance from him with his head thrown back, was a young soldier with a snub nose.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
9  Nicholas Rostov turned away and, as if searching for something, gazed into the distance, at the waters of the Danube, at the sky, and at the sun.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
10  The earth in the kitchen garden looked wet and black and glistened like poppy seed and at a short distance merged into the dull, moist veil of mist.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III
11  He felt both frightened and pleased to be riding alone with three hussars into that mysterious and dangerous misty distance where no one had been before him.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIII
12  There was no one in the anteroom; empty bottles, cloaks, and overshoes were lying about; there was a smell of alcohol, and sounds of voices and shouting in the distance.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
13  Just then at a distance behind Kutuzov was heard the sound of regiments saluting, and this sound rapidly came nearer along the whole extended line of the advancing Russian columns.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XV
14  He gazed silently at the hills which seemed to rise out of the sea of mist and on which the Russian troops were moving in the distance, and he listened to the sounds of firing in the valley.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
15  "In the first place, Trunila is not a 'dog,' but a harrier," thought Nicholas, and looked sternly at his sister, trying to make her feel the distance that ought to separate them at that moment.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER IV
16  Rostov from a distance saw with envy and remorse how von Toll spoke long and warmly to the Emperor and how the Emperor, evidently weeping, covered his eyes with his hand and pressed von Toll's hand.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVIII
17  Rostov could see nothing, peer as he would into that foggy distance: now something gleamed gray, now there was something black, now little lights seemed to glimmer where the enemy ought to be, now he fancied it was only something in his own eyes.
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ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIII
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