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1  He's worrying very much about the new building.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
2  He planned another garden and began a new building for the domestic serfs.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
3  came and, taking my arm, led me to a building to enter which we had to pass along a narrow plank.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
4  said the prince as if unpleasantly awakened, and not taking his eyes from the plan of the building.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
5  standing on the fence and pointing me to a broad avenue and garden, and in the garden was a large and beautiful building.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER X
6  "Well, Michael Ivanovich," he suddenly went on, raising his head and pointing to the plan of the building, "tell me how you mean to alter it."
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
7  Michael Ivanovich went up to the plan, and the prince after speaking to him about the building looked angrily at Princess Mary and Dessalles and went to his own room.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
8  Mr. Klyucharev has been treated in the same way, and so have others who on the plea of building up the temple of Solomon have tried to destroy the temple of their fatherland.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XI
9  The hospital was in a brick building with some of the window frames and panes broken and a courtyard surrounded by the remains of a wooden fence that had been pulled to pieces.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVII
10  Next, bolts for the doors of the new building were wanted and had to be of a special shape the prince had himself designed, and a leather case had to be ordered to keep the "will" in.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER III
11  On moving to the drawing room he handed the letter to Princess Mary and, spreading out before him the plan of the new building and fixing his eyes upon it, told her to read the letter aloud.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
12  He was himself always occupied: writing his memoirs, solving problems in higher mathematics, turning snuffboxes on a lathe, working in the garden, or superintending the building that was always going on at his estate.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
13  The countess was accustomed to this tone as a precursor of news of something detrimental to the children's interests, such as the building of a new gallery or conservatory, the inauguration of a private theater or an orchestra.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XV
14  At the end of the week the prince reappeared and resumed his former way of life, devoting himself with special activity to building operations and the arrangement of the gardens and completely breaking off his relations with Mademoiselle Bourienne.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
15  Boris, in the accurate way characteristic of him, was building a little pyramid of chessmen with his delicate white fingers while awaiting Berg's move, and watched his opponent's face, evidently thinking about the game as he always thought only of whatever he was engaged on.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII
16  Partly because of the depressing memories associated with Bald Hills, partly because Prince Andrew did not always feel equal to bearing with his father's peculiarities, and partly because he needed solitude, Prince Andrew made use of Bogucharovo, began building and spent most of his time there.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VIII
17  Soldiers scattered over the whole place were dragging logs and brushwood and were building shelters with merry chatter and laughter; around the fires sat others, dressed and undressed, drying their shirts and leg bands or mending boots or overcoats and crowding round the boilers and porridge cookers.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
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