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1  The place fixed on for the stand-shooting was not far above a stream in a little aspen copse.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 15
2  The snipe flying high above instantly folded its wings and fell into a thicket, bending down the delicate shoots.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 15
3  He could not believe that what gave such great and delicate pleasure to him, and above all to her, could be wrong.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 16
4  His good-naturedly beaming face above the embroidered collar of his uniform beamed more than ever when he recognized the man coming up.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 5
5  Levin went to the steps, took a run from above as best he could, and dashed down, preserving his balance in this unwonted movement with his hands.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
6  Alexey Alexandrovitch sternly cut her short, roundly declaring his wife to be above suspicion, and from that time began to avoid Countess Lidia Ivanovna.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 26
7  Venus had risen above the branch, and the ear of the Great Bear with its shaft was now all plainly visible against the dark blue sky, yet still he waited.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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8  Princess Shtcherbatskaya wished, above everything, to present her daughter to this German princess, and the day after their arrival she duly performed this rite.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 30
9  The mysterious, enchanting Kitty herself could not love such an ugly person as he conceived himself to be, and, above all, such an ordinary, in no way striking person.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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10  Levin looked about him to right and to left, and there, just facing him against the dusky blue sky above the confused mass of tender shoots of the aspens, he saw the flying bird.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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11  There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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12  The snipe had ceased flying; but Levin resolved to stay a little longer, till Venus, which he saw below a branch of birch, should be above it, and the stars of the Great Bear should be perfectly plain.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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13  He not only disliked family life, but a family, and especially a husband was, in accordance with the views general in the bachelor world in which he lived, conceived as something alien, repellant, and, above all, ridiculous.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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14  Larks trilled unseen above the velvety green fields and the ice-covered stubble-land; peewits wailed over the low lands and marshes flooded by the pools; cranes and wild geese flew high across the sky uttering their spring calls.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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15  She knew that in politics, in philosophy, in theology, Alexey Alexandrovitch often had doubts, and made investigations; but on questions of art and poetry, and, above all, of music, of which he was totally devoid of understanding, he had the most distinct and decided opinions.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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16  But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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17  But what always struck him in her as something unlooked for, was the expression of her eyes, soft, serene, and truthful, and above all, her smile, which always transported Levin to an enchanted world, where he felt himself softened and tender, as he remembered himself in some days of his early childhood.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
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