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1  The clumsy movement made by Vronsky had broken her back.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 25
2  "But I still do not admit this movement to be just," said Konstantin Levin, reddening a little.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 3
3  And then all this enormous literature of the labor question, the most liberal Lassalle movement.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 27
4  He enjoyed the slight ache in his strong leg, he enjoyed the muscular sensation of movement in his chest as he breathed.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 22
5  Levin went to the steps, took a run from above as best he could, and dashed down, preserving his balance in this unwonted movement with his hands.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
6  Left alone in the room assigned him, lying on a spring mattress that yielded unexpectedly at every movement of his arm or his leg, Levin did not fall asleep for a long while.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 28
7  With a flying, feminine glance she scanned her attire, and made a movement of her head, hardly perceptible, but understood by Kitty, signifying approval of her dress and her looks.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
8  The approach of the train was more and more evident by the preparatory bustle in the station, the rush of porters, the movement of policemen and attendants, and people meeting the train.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 17
9  Before the mare had time to move, Vronsky stepped with an agile, vigorous movement into the steel-toothed stirrup, and lightly and firmly seated himself on the creaking leather of the saddle.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
10  She was silent for a little, thinking of herself, of her own grief in her family, and all at once, with an impulsive movement, she raised her head and clasped her hands with an imploring gesture.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: Chapter 12
11  Both of them, repeating over and over again the same strained movement, were in a perfect frenzy of toil, and were incapable of shifting their position and at the same time watching what was before them.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
12  Her face was hidden by a veil, but he drank in with glad eyes the special movement in walking, peculiar to her alone, the slope of the shoulders, and the setting of the head, and at once a sort of electric shock ran all over him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 22
13  "It is over," answered Vronsky, smiling with his eyes only, and twirling the tips of his mustaches as circumspectly as though after the perfect order into which his affairs had been brought any over-bold or rapid movement might disturb it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 21
14  In spite of the terrible change in the face, Levin had only to glance at those eager eyes raised at his approach, only to catch the faint movement of the mouth under the sticky mustache, to realize the terrible truth that this death-like body was his living brother.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 17
15  Her eyes glowed with the fire he knew so well; with a rapid movement she raised her lovely hands, covered with rings, took his head, looked a long look into his face, and, putting up her face with smiling, parted lips, swiftly kissed his mouth and both eyes, and pushed him away.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 23
16  Women who were quite strangers, mere spectators, were watching it excitedly, holding their breath, in fear of losing a single movement or expression of the bride and bridegroom, and angrily not answering, often not hearing, the remarks of the callous men, who kept making joking or irrelevant observations.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: Chapter 5
17  From the rooms came a constant, steady hum, as from a hive, and the rustle of movement; and while on the landing between trees they gave last touches to their hair and dresses before the mirror, they heard from the ballroom the careful, distinct notes of the fiddles of the orchestra beginning the first waltz.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 22
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