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1  Levin still kept between the young peasant and the old man.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 5
2  He recalled with horror his dreams of marrying a peasant girl.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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3  The gentleman does nothing, while the peasant works and supplants the idle man.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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4  For both Levin and the young peasant behind him, such changes of position were difficult.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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5  How can you think it a matter of no importance whether the peasant, whom you love as you assert.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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6  When half the children had been dressed, some peasant women in holiday dress, out picking herbs, came up to the bathing-shed and stopped shyly.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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7  Behind him came a peasant, and he too was evidently tired, for he stopped at once without waiting to mow up to Levin, and began whetting his scythe.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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8  The peasant women, with their rakes on their shoulders, gay with bright flowers, and chattering with ringing, merry voices, walked behind the hay cart.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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9  The peasant women even made Darya Alexandrovna laugh, and offended the English governess, because she was the cause of the laughter she did not understand.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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10  Darya Alexandrovna felt disinclined to leave the peasant women, so interesting to her was their conversation, so completely identical were all their interests.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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11  There was a merry chatter of peasant women over their linen at the pond, and the ring of axes in the yard, where the peasants were repairing ploughs and harrows.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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12  In his methodical brain there were distinctly formulated certain aspects of peasant life, deduced partly from that life itself, but chiefly from contrast with other modes of life.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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13  In front of him, in the bend of the river beyond the marsh, moved a bright-colored line of peasant women, and the scattered hay was being rapidly formed into gray winding rows over the pale green stubble.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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14  A smart guard jumped out, giving a whistle, and after him one by one the impatient passengers began to get down: an officer of the guards, holding himself erect, and looking severely about him; a nimble little merchant with a satchel, smiling gaily; a peasant with a sack over his shoulder.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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15  After lunch Levin was not in the same place in the string of mowers as before, but stood between the old man who had accosted him jocosely, and now invited him to be his neighbor, and a young peasant, who had only been married in the autumn, and who was mowing this summer for the first time.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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16  For a moment she regained her self-possession, and realized that the thin peasant who had come in wearing a long overcoat, with buttons missing from it, was the stoveheater, that he was looking at the thermometer, that it was the wind and snow bursting in after him at the door; but then everything grew blurred again.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 29
17  From the vague answers to his question how much hay had been cut on the principal meadow, from the hurry of the village elder who had made the division, not asking leave, from the whole tone of the peasant, Levin perceived that there was something wrong in the division of the hay, and made up his mind to drive over himself to look into the matter.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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