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1  She is unusually intelligent, charming.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER XIII
2  He regarded the whole business of the war not with his intelligence or his reason but by something else.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVI
3  I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can't make it out.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X
4  As soon as Leppich is ready, get together a crew of reliable and intelligent men for his car and send a courier to General Kutuzov to let him know.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XVIII
5  Tushin's large, kind, intelligent eyes were fixed with sympathy and commiseration on Rostov, who saw that Tushin with his whole heart wished to help him but could not.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XXI
6  He had an intellectual and distinctive head, but the instant he turned to Prince Andrew the firm, intelligent expression on his face changed in a way evidently deliberate and habitual to him.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IX
7  Dessalles, the tutor he had brought from Switzerland, was wearing a coat of Russian cut and talking broken Russian to the servants, but was still the same narrowly intelligent, conscientious, and pedantic preceptor.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER VIII
8  Helene, who has never cared for anything but her own body and is one of the stupidest women in the world," thought Pierre, "is regarded by people as the acme of intelligence and refinement, and they pay homage to her.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I
9  He was proud of her intelligence and goodness, recognized his own insignificance beside her in the spiritual world, and rejoiced all the more that she with such a soul not only belonged to him but was part of himself.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XV
10  Young Nicholas, now a slim lad of fifteen, delicate and intelligent, with curly light-brown hair and beautiful eyes, was delighted because Uncle Pierre as he called him was the object of his rapturous and passionate affection.
War and Peace 6 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 16: CHAPTER XII
11  After he had gone Pierre continued pacing up and down the room for a long time, no longer piercing an imaginary foe with his imaginary sword, but smiling at the remembrance of that pleasant, intelligent, and resolute young man.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
12  Understand, my dear fellow, that outside this union all is filled with deceit and falsehood and I agree with you that nothing is left for an intelligent and good man but to live out his life, like you, merely trying not to harm others.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER XII
13  Prince Andrew smiled involuntarily as he looked at the artillery officer Tushin, who silent and smiling, shifting from one stockinged foot to the other, glanced inquiringly with his large, intelligent, kindly eyes from Prince Andrew to the staff officer.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
14  And immediately Tushin, with a short pipe in the corner of his mouth and his kind, intelligent face rather pale, rushed out of the shed followed by the owner of the manly voice, a dashing infantry officer who hurried off to his company, buttoning up his coat as he ran.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XVI
15  The middle of the upper lip formed a sharp wedge and closed firmly on the firm lower one, and something like two distinct smiles played continually round the two corners of the mouth; this, together with the resolute, insolent intelligence of his eyes, produced an effect which made it impossible not to notice his face.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
16  The chief steward, a very stupid but cunning man who saw perfectly through the naive and intelligent count and played with him as with a toy, seeing the effect these prearranged receptions had on Pierre, pressed him still harder with proofs of the impossibility and above all the uselessness of freeing the serfs, who were quite happy as it was.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X