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1  "Not Petersburg, but simply feminine," she responded.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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2  Talking about common acquaintances in Petersburg, Anna got up quickly.
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3  Half Moscow and Petersburg were friends and relations of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
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4  In his Petersburg world all people were divided into utterly opposed classes.
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5  Although he did go more or less into Petersburg society, his love affairs had always hitherto been outside it.
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6  When he got out of the train at Petersburg, he felt after his sleepless night as keen and fresh as after a cold bath.
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7  Leaving the school very young as a brilliant officer, he had at once got into the circle of wealthy Petersburg army men.
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8  At Petersburg, as soon as the train stopped and she got out, the first person that attracted her attention was her husband.
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9  Vronsky is one of the sons of Count Kirill Ivanovitch Vronsky, and one of the finest specimens of the gilded youth of Petersburg.
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10  Towards morning Anna sank into a doze, sitting in her place, and when she waked it was daylight and the train was near Petersburg.
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11  When Vronsky went to Moscow from Petersburg, he had left his large set of rooms in Morskaia to his friend and favorite comrade Petritsky.
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12  A feeling such as his was profaned by talk of the rivalry of some Petersburg officer, of the suppositions and the counsels of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
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13  Still she did not forget that Anna, her sister-in-law, was the wife of one of the most important personages in Petersburg, and was a Petersburg grande dame.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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14  "No; why, as it is, I have danced more at your ball in Moscow than I have all the winter in Petersburg," said Anna, looking round at Vronsky, who stood near her.
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15  In Moscow he had for the first time felt, after his luxurious and coarse life at Petersburg, all the charm of intimacy with a sweet and innocent girl of his own rank, who cared for him.
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16  At dinner he talked a little to his wife about Moscow matters, and, with a sarcastic smile, asked her after Stepan Arkadyevitch; but the conversation was for the most part general, dealing with Petersburg official and public news.
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17  Seeing Alexey Alexandrovitch with his Petersburg face and severely self-confident figure, in his round hat, with his rather prominent spine, he believed in him, and was aware of a disagreeable sensation, such as a man might feel tortured by thirst, who, on reaching a spring, should find a dog, a sheep, or a pig, who has drunk of it and muddied the water.
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