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1  She longed to look at his photograph and talk of him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 21
2  He had said what her soul longed to hear, though she feared it with her reason.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 30
3  Even more than his mare, Vronsky longed to see Gladiator, whom he had never seen.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
4  Vronsky was longing now to hear to the end and know what Serpuhovskey would say to him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 21
5  But now Levin was longing to find out what was tormenting him so, yet he had not the courage to begin.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 14
6  But Levin felt a longing to get as much mowing done that day as possible, and was vexed with the sun sinking so quickly in the sky.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
7  He felt that his heart was throbbing, and that he, too, like the mare, longed to move, to bite; it was both dreadful and delicious.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 21
8  I never longed so for the country, Russian country, with bast shoes and peasants, as when I was spending a winter with my mother in Nice.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 14
9  And the heroism of the Servians and Montenegrins struggling for a great cause begot in the whole people a longing to help their brothers not in word but in deed.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 1
10  Moreover, he lived in a district town, and he was longing to tell how one soldier had volunteered from his town, a drunkard and a thief whom no one would employ as a laborer.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 8: Chapter 3
11  He longed to look round again, but he did not dare do this, and tried to be cool and not to urge on his mare so to keep the same reserve of force in her as he felt that Gladiator still kept.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 25
12  The sense of longing for his death was felt by everyone now at the mere sight of him, by the waiters and the hotel-keeper and all the people staying in the hotel, and the doctor and Marya Nikolaevna and Levin and Kitty.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 20
13  The efforts she had made to like it seemed to her intolerable, and she felt a longing to get back quickly into the fresh air, to Russia, to Ergushovo, where, as she knew from letters, her sister Dolly had already gone with her children.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 35
14  But at the same time, he felt that the turning-point he had been longing for had come now; that it was impossible to go on concealing things from her husband, and it was inevitable in one way or another that they should soon put an end to their unnatural position.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 22
15  With mingled feelings of annoyance at never being able to get away from acquaintances anywhere, and longing to find some sort of diversion from the monotony of his life, Vronsky looked once more at the gentleman, who had retreated and stood still again, and at the same moment a light came into the eyes of both.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 7
16  When Kitty had gone and Levin was left alone, he felt such uneasiness without her, and such an impatient longing to get as quickly, as quickly as possible, to tomorrow morning, when he would see her again and be plighted to her forever, that he felt afraid, as though of death, of those fourteen hours that he had to get through without her.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 14
17  Apart from the fact that the sight of this happy and affectionate couple, so pleased with themselves and everyone else, and their well-ordered home had always a cheering effect on Levin, he felt a longing, now that he was so dissatisfied with his own life, to get at that secret in Sviazhsky that gave him such clearness, definiteness, and good courage in life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
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