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1  You know all about such things.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
2  Very well, I will come directly and see about it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
3  She sat down and began questioning Levin about his life in the country.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
4  After talking a little of her old governess and her peculiarities, she questioned him about his life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
5  Her husband, about whom everything was well known before hand, had come, looked at his future bride, and been looked at.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
6  He had to make an effort to master himself, and to remind himself that people of all sorts were moving about her, and that he too might come there to skate.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
7  Stepan Arkadyevitch remembered his joke about this punctual, bald watchmaker, "that the German was wound up for a whole lifetime himself, to wind up watches," and he smiled.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 4
8  Levin knew that his elder brother took little interest in farming, and only put the question in deference to him, and so he only told him about the sale of his wheat and money matters.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 8
9  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
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  At last the little girl kissed his face, which was flushed from his stooping posture and beaming with tenderness, loosed her hands, and was about to run away again; but her father held her back.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
12  Oblonsky took off his overcoat, and with his hat over one ear walked into the dining room, giving directions to the Tatar waiters, who were clustered about him in evening coats, bearing napkins.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 10
13  When Levin went into the restaurant with Oblonsky, he could not help noticing a certain peculiarity of expression, as it were, a restrained radiance, about the face and whole figure of Stepan Arkadyevitch.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 10
14  The little girl knew that there was a quarrel between her father and mother, and that her mother could not be cheerful, and that her father must be aware of this, and that he was pretending when he asked about it so lightly.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 3
15  Levin had come across the magazine articles about which they were disputing, and had read them, interested in them as a development of the first principles of science, familiar to him as a natural science student at the university.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 7
16  And noticing a gleam of light peeping in beside one of the serge curtains, he cheerfully dropped his feet over the edge of the sofa, and felt about with them for his slippers, a present on his last birthday, worked for him by his wife on gold-colored morocco.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
17  All the members of that family, especially the feminine half, were pictured by him, as it were, wrapped about with a mysterious poetical veil, and he not only perceived no defects whatever in them, but under the poetical veil that shrouded them he assumed the existence of the loftiest sentiments and every possible perfection.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
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