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1  They say he was the only support of an immense family.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
2  I saw nothing but him, and that the family was broken up.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
3  Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
4  Somehow or other these women are still looked on with contempt by them, and do not touch on their feeling for their family.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
5  Very wealthy, clever, of aristocratic family, on the highroad to a brilliant career in the army and at court, and a fascinating man.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
6  They had lived just the life that to Levin seemed the ideal of perfection, and that he had dreamed of beginning with his wife, his family.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 27
7  Strange as it may appear, it was with the household, the family, that Konstantin Levin was in love, especially with the feminine half of the household.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 6
8  This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their family and household, were painfully conscious of it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 1
9  He was so far from conceiving of love for woman apart from marriage that he positively pictured to himself first the family, and only secondarily the woman who would give him a family.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 27
10  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
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 16
11  The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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12  Every person in the house felt that there was no sense in their living together, and that the stray people brought together by chance in any inn had more in common with one another than they, the members of the family and household of the Oblonskys.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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13  The liberal party said that marriage is an institution quite out of date, and that it needs reconstruction; and family life certainly afforded Stepan Arkadyevitch little gratification, and forced him into lying and hypocrisy, which was so repulsive to his nature.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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14  He was reading a book, and thinking of what he was reading, and stopping to listen to Agafea Mihalovna, who gossiped away without flagging, and yet with all that, all sorts of pictures of family life and work in the future rose disconnectedly before his imagination.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 27
15  If he could have heard what her parents were saying that evening, if he could have put himself at the point of view of the family and have heard that Kitty would be unhappy if he did not marry her, he would have been greatly astonished, and would not have believed it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 16
16  One would have thought that nothing could be simpler than for him, a man of good family, rather rich than poor, and thirty-two years old, to make the young Princess Shtcherbatskaya an offer of marriage; in all likelihood he would at once have been looked upon as a good match.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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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
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