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1  He looked now at the Pratzen Heights, now at the sun floating up out of the mist.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
2  Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIX
3  Above him was a clear blue sky, and the sun's vast orb quivered like a huge hollow, crimson float on the surface of that milky sea of mist.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
4  Each day fleecy clouds floated across the sky and occasionally veiled the sun, but toward evening the sky cleared again and the sun set in reddish-brown mist.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V
5  The army was made up of white slanting lines that filled the air like the cobwebs that float about in autumn and which Dessalles called les fils de la Vierge.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XVI
6  The waves of the great movement abate, and on the calm surface eddies are formed in which float the diplomatists, who imagine that they have caused the floods to abate.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER IV
7  He looked up joyfully at the baby when the nurse brought it to him and nodded approval when she told him that the wax with the baby's hair had not sunk in the font but had floated.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IX
8  Warmed by the spring sunshine he sat in the caleche looking at the new grass, the first leaves on the birches, and the first puffs of white spring clouds floating across the clear blue sky.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I
9  Riding past the pond where there used always to be dozens of women chattering as they rinsed their linen or beat it with wooden beetles, Prince Andrew noticed that there was not a soul about and that the little washing wharf, torn from its place and half submerged, was floating on its side in the middle of the pond.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V