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1  Rostov still had the same indefinite feeling, as of shame.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XV
2  And he understood her feelings, her sufferings, shame, and remorse.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXXII
3  When she saw Natasha's fright, Sonya shed tears of shame and pity for her friend.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XV
4  But we, thank God, have no need to recognize his genius in order to hide our shame.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER VIII
5  An external shock was needed to overcome that shame, and this shock came in due time.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVIII
6  "It's not at all from friendship," declared Nicholas, flaring up and turning away as if from a shameful aspersion.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII
7  Those eyes expressed entreaty, shame at having to ask, fear of a refusal, and readiness for relentless hatred in case of such refusal.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VIII
8  But though they all realized that it was necessary to get away, there still remained a feeling of shame at admitting that they must flee.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER XVIII
9  the eggs are teaching the hen, muttered the count through tears of joy, and he embraced his wife who was glad to hide her look of shame on his breast.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVI
10  It's a shame for a soldier to steal; a soldier must be honest, honorable, and brave, but if he robs his fellows there is no honor in him, he's a scoundrel.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XV
11  But before he had finished speaking, Prince Andrew, feeling tears of shame and anger choking him, had already leapt from his horse and run to the standard.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XVI
12  He did not know that Natasha's soul was overflowing with despair, shame, and humiliation, and that it was not her fault that her face happened to assume an expression of calm dignity and severity.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XIX
13  The countess glanced at her daughter, saw her face full of shame for her mother, saw her agitation, and understood why her husband did not turn to look at her now, and she glanced round quite disconcerted.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XVI
14  For a long time Pierre could not understand, but when he did, he jumped up from the sofa, seized Boris under the elbow in his quick, clumsy way, and, blushing far more than Boris, began to speak with a feeling of mingled shame and vexation.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVI
15  He knew what a shock he would inflict on his father and mother by the news of this loss, he knew what a relief it would be to escape it all, and felt that Dolokhov knew that he could save him from all this shame and sorrow, but wanted now to play with him as a cat does with a mouse.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XIV
16  O Lord our God, in whom we believe and in whom we put our trust, let us not be confounded in our hope of Thy mercy, and give us a token of Thy blessing, that those who hate us and our Orthodox faith may see it and be put to shame and perish, and may all the nations know that Thou art the Lord and we are Thy people.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XVIII
17  When he received the news of the battle of Borodino and the abandonment of Moscow, Rostov was not seized with despair, anger, the desire for vengeance, or any feeling of that kind, but everything in Voronezh suddenly seemed to him dull and tiresome, and he experienced an indefinite feeling of shame and awkwardness.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VII
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