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1  Having heard Rostov to the end, the general shook his head gravely.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XX
2  Au chef du gouvernement francais, said Dolgorukov, with grave satisfaction.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX
3  She said she could lie down in her grave peacefully if that were accomplished.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VIII
4  Natasha was calm, though a severe and grave expression had again settled on her face.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 15: CHAPTER XVII
5  But in these great endeavors we are gravely hampered by the political institutions of today.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
6  This hussar, with a grave face and without a smile or a change in the expression of his fixed eyes, watched the regimental commander's back and mimicked his every movement.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
7  Seeing that her mother was still praying she ran on tiptoe to the bed and, rapidly slipping one little foot against the other, pushed off her slippers and jumped onto the bed the countess had feared might become her grave.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIII
8  I should be given a small room as a favor, the soldiers would violate my father's newly dug grave to steal his crosses and stars, they would tell me of their victories over the Russians, and would pretend to sympathize with my sorrow.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER X
9  I should not be doing my duty, Count," he said in timid tones, "and should not justify your confidence and the honor you have done me in choosing me for your second, if at this grave, this very grave, moment I did not tell you the whole truth.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER IV
10  But at noon the adjutant of the regiment came into Rostov's and Denisov's dugout with a grave and serious face and regretfully showed them a paper addressed to Major Denisov from the regimental commander in which inquiries were made about yesterday's occurrence.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XVI
11  But when he had gone into another room, to which the countess hurriedly followed him, he assumed a grave air and thoughtfully shaking his head said that though there was danger, he had hopes of the effect of this last medicine and one must wait and see, that the malady was chiefly mental, but.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVI
12  To them the words of Miloradovich seem very interesting, and so do their surmises and the rewards this or that general received; but the question of those fifty thousand men who were left in hospitals and in graves does not even interest them, for it does not come within the range of their investigation.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER XIX