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1  This renunciation gave him satisfaction, and was easy and simple.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 12
2  But this simple incident for some reason struck everyone as strange.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 21
3  His present relation to Anna and to her husband was to his mind clear and simple.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 20
4  It was all so simple, but he took it so awkwardly, and was so long thanking me, that I felt awkward too.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 33
5  In old days to go anywhere in a ball dress was a simple joy to me, I admired myself; now I feel ashamed and awkward.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
6  What her father said seemed simple enough, yet at these words Kitty became confused and overcome like a detected criminal.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
7  Kitty made a low and graceful curtsey in the very simple, that is to say, very elegant frock that had been ordered her from Paris.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 30
8  When Alexey Alexandrovitch had made up his mind that he must talk to his wife about it, it had seemed a very easy and simple matter.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 8
9  Her position, which had seemed to her simplified the night before, suddenly struck her now as not only not simple, but as absolutely hopeless.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 15
10  Kitty felt that Anna was perfectly simple and was concealing nothing, but that she had another higher world of interests inaccessible to her, complex and poetic.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 20
11  But Alexey Alexandrovitch said nothing, and therefore the lawyer went on: "The most usual and simple, the sensible course, I consider, is adultery by mutual consent."
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 5
12  Everything about his face and figure, from his short-cropped black hair and freshly shaven chin down to his loosely fitting, brand-new uniform, was simple and at the same time elegant.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
13  These were a tall man with a stooping figure, and huge hands, in an old coat too short for him, with black, simple, and yet terrible eyes, and a pockmarked, kind-looking woman, very badly and tastelessly dressed.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 30
14  Levin rose to his feet, took off his overcoat, and scurrying over the rough ice round the hut, came out on the smooth ice and skated without effort, as it were, by simple exercise of will, increasing and slackening speed and turning his course.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
15  He suddenly felt that the very thing that was the source of his sufferings had become the source of his spiritual joy; that what had seemed insoluble while he was judging, blaming, and hating, had become clear and simple when he forgave and loved.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 19
16  She remembered the simple delight expressed on the round, good-humored face of Anna Pavlovna at their meetings; she remembered their secret confabulations about the invalid, their plots to draw him away from the work which was forbidden him, and to get him out-of-doors; the devotion of the youngest boy, who used to call her "my Kitty," and would not go to bed without her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 33
17  She was fascinating in her simple black dress, fascinating were her round arms with their bracelets, fascinating was her firm neck with its thread of pearls, fascinating the straying curls of her loose hair, fascinating the graceful, light movements of her little feet and hands, fascinating was that lovely face in its eagerness, but there was something terrible and cruel in her fascination.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 23
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