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1  A Russian lady, I think she is, said the colonel.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 31
2  A boy in Russian dress, desperately waving his arms and bowed down to the ground, overtook her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
3  This Russian girl was not, as Kitty gathered, related to Madame Stahl, nor was she a paid attendant.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 30
4  The English fashion of the complete independence of girls was also not accepted, and not possible in Russian society.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
5  I never longed so for the country, Russian country, with bast shoes and peasants, as when I was spending a winter with my mother in Nice.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
6  The princess laughed at her husband for his Russian ways, but she was more lively and good-humored than she had been all the while she had been at the waters.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 35
7  Of these people the one that attracted her most was a Russian girl who had come to the watering-place with an invalid Russian lady, Madame Stahl, as everyone called her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 30
8  The Russian fashion of match-making by the offices of intermediate persons was for some reason considered unseemly; it was ridiculed by every one, and by the princess herself.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
9  He wrote without using any form of address to her, and wrote in French, making use of the plural "vous," which has not the same note of coldness as the corresponding Russian form.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 14
10  Crowds of well-dressed people, with hats bright in the sun, swarmed about the entrance and along the well-swept little paths between the little houses adorned with carving in the Russian style.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
11  The prince, on the contrary, thought everything foreign detestable, got sick of European life, kept to his Russian habits, and purposely tried to show himself abroad less European than he was in reality.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
12  The day after his arrival the prince, in his long overcoat, with his Russian wrinkles and baggy cheeks propped up by a starched collar, set off with his daughter to the spring in the greatest good humor.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 34
13  Konstantin Levin looked in at the door, and saw that the speaker was a young man with an immense shock of hair, wearing a Russian jerkin, and that a pockmarked woman in a woolen gown, without collar or cuffs, was sitting on the sofa.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 24
14  Either she was taking the children of a Russian family home from the springs, or fetching a shawl for a sick lady, and wrapping her up in it, or trying to interest an irritable invalid, or selecting and buying cakes for tea for someone.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 30
15  He considered the Russian peasant as occupying a stage of development intermediate between the ape and the man, and at the same time in the local assemblies no one was readier to shake hands with the peasants and listen to their opinion.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
16  The Russian girl looked after Madame Stahl, and besides that, she was, as Kitty observed, on friendly terms with all the invalids who were seriously ill, and there were many of them at the springs, and looked after them in the most natural way.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 30
17  Levin saw proofs of this in his dress, in the old-fashioned threadbare coat, obviously not his everyday attire, in his shrewd, deep-set eyes, in his idiomatic, fluent Russian, in the imperious tone that had become habitual from long use, and in the resolute gestures of his large, red, sunburnt hands, with an old betrothal ring on the little finger.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
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