1 stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.
2 Bushes looked like gigantic trees and level ground like cliffs and slopes.
3 At midday they put the hounds into a ravine thickly overgrown with young trees.
4 Rostov, always closely followed by Ilyin, rode along the side of the road between two rows of birch trees.
5 Beneath the trees grew some kind of lush, wet, bushy vegetation with silver-lit leaves and stems here and there.
6 Just before the window was a row of pollard trees, looking black on one side and with a silvery light on the other.
7 It was at the end of a village that stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were a few fir trees.
8 He heard merry girlish cries behind some trees on the right and saw a group of girls running to cross the path of his caleche.
9 The coarse evergreen color of the small fir trees scattered here and there among the birches was an unpleasant reminder of winter.
10 Halfway lay some snow-covered piles of firewood and across and along them a network of shadows from the bare old lime trees fell on the snow and on the path.
11 The floor of the stage consisted of smooth boards, at the sides was some painted cardboard representing trees, and at the back was a cloth stretched over boards.
12 Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, light blue Viennese caleche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn by six horses at a smart trot.
13 The affianced couple, no longer alluding to trees that shed gloom and melancholy upon them, planned the arrangements of a splendid house in Petersburg, paid calls, and prepared everything for a brilliant wedding.
14 Farther back beyond the dark trees a roof glittered with dew, to the right was a leafy tree with brilliantly white trunk and branches, and above it shone the moon, nearly at its full, in a pale, almost starless, spring sky.
15 Bagration called to him from the hill not to go beyond the stream, but Rostov pretended not to hear him and did not stop but rode on and on, continually mistaking bushes for trees and gullies for men and continually discovering his mistakes.
16 While they drove past the garden the shadows of the bare trees often fell across the road and hid the brilliant moonlight, but as soon as they were past the fence, the snowy plain bathed in moonlight and motionless spread out before them glittering like diamonds and dappled with bluish shadows.
17 Now he rode beside Ilyin under the birch trees, occasionally plucking leaves from a branch that met his hand, sometimes touching his horse's side with his foot, or, without turning round, handing a pipe he had finished to an hussar riding behind him, with as calm and careless an air as though he were merely out for a ride.
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