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1  General, I must obey orders, but I am not bound to endure.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
2  "Not bound to endure insults," Dolokhov concluded in loud, ringing tones.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I
3  "To endure war is the most difficult subordination of man's freedom to the law of God," the voice had said.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER IX
4  He seemed carefully to cherish within himself the gloomy mood which alone enabled him to endure his position.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
5  My poor husband is enduring pains and hunger in Jewish taverns, but the news which I have inspires me yet more.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER II
6  After the sufferings he had been enduring, Prince Andrew enjoyed a blissful feeling such as he had not experienced for a long time.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXVII
7  This expression suggested that she had resolved to endure her troubles uncomplainingly and that her husband was a cross laid upon her by God.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI
8  He wished for nothing and hoped for nothing, and deep in his heart experienced a gloomy and stern satisfaction in an uncomplaining endurance of his position.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER V
9  "I will the bridge fire," he said in a solemn tone as if to announce that in spite of all the unpleasantness he had to endure he would still do the right thing.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII
10  And they all struggled and suffered and tormented one another and injured their souls, their eternal souls, for the attainment of benefits which endure but for an instant.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XXVI
11  The old prince used to approve of them for their endurance at work when they came to Bald Hills to help with the harvest or to dig ponds, and ditches, but he disliked them for their boorishness.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER IX
12  The motion of the small foot shod in a Tartar boot embroidered with silver, and the firm pressure of the lean sinewy hand, showed that the prince still possessed the tenacious endurance and vigor of hardy old age.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXV
13  In his fancy he did not clearly picture to himself either the striking of the blow or the death of Napoleon, but with extraordinary vividness and melancholy enjoyment imagined his own destruction and heroic endurance.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVII
14  Then he was again led somewhere still blindfolded, and as they went along he was told allegories of the toils of his pilgrimage, of holy friendship, of the Eternal Architect of the universe, and of the courage with which he should endure toils and dangers.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV
15  "And, if your excellency will allow me to express my opinion," he continued, "we owe today's success chiefly to the action of that battery and the heroic endurance of Captain Tushin and his company," and without awaiting a reply, Prince Andrew rose and left the table.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
16  Despite his apparently delicate build Prince Andrew could endure physical fatigue far better than many very muscular men, and on the night of the battle, having arrived at Krems excited but not weary, with dispatches from Dokhturov to Kutuzov, he was sent immediately with a special dispatch to Brunn.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
17  In burned and devastated Moscow Pierre experienced almost the extreme limits of privation a man can endure; but thanks to his physical strength and health, of which he had till then been unconscious, and thanks especially to the fact that the privations came so gradually that it was impossible to say when they began, he endured his position not only lightly but joyfully.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XII
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