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1  Her dearest friend, her sister, was going away.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 2
2  And he and his sister stood still, looking for her maid.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
3  Stepan Arkadyevitch, with his sister on his arm, turned back.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
4  She had not looked for such cruelty in her sister, and she was angry with her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
5  Kitty was unmistakably proud of playing the part of a sister of mercy in that family.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 33
6  On reaching home Oblonsky helped his sister out, sighed, pressed her hand, and set off to his office.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 18
7  Kitty glanced at her sister, and the cold, rather ill-tempered expression of her face did not change.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
8  That humiliation of which she was always conscious came back to her with a peculiar bitterness when her sister reminded her of it.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
9  Besides this, she was pleased to go away to the country because she was dreaming of getting her sister Kitty to stay with her there.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7
10  Darya Alexandrovna in her intimate, philosophical talks with her sister, her mother, and her friends very often astonished them by the freedom of her views in regard to religion.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: Chapter 8
11  "Matvey, my sister Anna Arkadyevna will be here tomorrow," he said, checking for a minute the sleek, plump hand of the barber, cutting a pink path through his long, curly whiskers.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
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12  Though she had sent word the day before to her husband that it was nothing to her whether his sister came or not, she had made everything ready for her arrival, and was expecting her sister-in-law with emotion.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
13  But now, just because it was terrible, because people broke their necks, and there was a doctor standing at each obstacle, and an ambulance with a cross on it, and a sister of mercy, he had made up his mind to take part in the race.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
14  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
15  And saying these words she glanced at her sister, and seeing that Dolly sat silent, her head mournfully bowed, Kitty, instead of running out of the room as she had meant to do, sat down near the door, and hid her face in her handkerchief.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
16  Dolly knew this trick her sister had of clenching her hands when she was much excited; she knew, too, that in moments of excitement Kitty was capable of forgetting herself and saying a great deal too much, and Dolly would have soothed her, but it was too late.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: Chapter 3
17  She knew that in one way or another she would tell Anna everything, and she was alternately glad at the thought of speaking freely, and angry at the necessity of speaking of her humiliation with her, his sister, and of hearing her ready-made phrases of good advice and comfort.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: Chapter 19
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