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1  "He's a smart lad," said an hussar standing near Petya.
War and Peace 5 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 14: CHAPTER VII
2  The officer, the soldiers, and their horses all looked smart and well kept.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV
3  The soldiers handed up the charges, turned, loaded, and did their business with strained smartness.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER XXXI
4  The smoke of the campfires, into which they were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XIV
5  From early morning the smart clean troops were on the move, forming up on the field before the fortress.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
6  Having done that, the officer, lifting his elbow with a smart gesture, stroked his mustache and lightly touched his hat.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXVIII
7  A splendid wife, children, a good pack of hounds, a dozen leashes of smart borzois, agriculture, neighbors, service by election.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XII
8  Powdered footmen, in livery with buckled shoes and smart stockings, stood at every door anxiously noting visitors' every movement in order to offer their services.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER III
9  When at last, smartly whirling his partner round in front of her chair, he drew up with a click of his spurs and bowed to her, Natasha did not even make him a curtsy.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER XII
10  Everyone laughed, not at Marya Dmitrievna's answer but at the incredible boldness and smartness of this little girl who had dared to treat Marya Dmitrievna in this fashion.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX
11  Along the broad country road, edged on both sides by trees, came a high, light blue Viennese caleche, slightly creaking on its springs and drawn by six horses at a smart trot.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
12  This young man was dressed in a threadbare blue cloth coat lined with fox fur, that had once been smart, and dirty hempen convict trousers, over which were pulled his thin, dirty, trodden-down boots.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
13  "Uncle" himself twisted up the hare, threw it neatly and smartly across his horse's back as if by that gesture he meant to rebuke everybody, and, with an air of not wishing to speak to anyone, mounted his bay and rode off.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER VI
14  The commander-in-chief made a sign that the men should continue to march at ease, and he and all his suite showed pleasure at the sound of the singing and the sight of the dancing soldier and the gay and smartly marching men.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II
15  Denisov, to Rostov's surprise, appeared in the drawing room with pomaded hair, perfumed, and in a new uniform, looking just as smart as he made himself when going into battle, and he was more amiable to the ladies and gentlemen than Rostov had ever expected to see him.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I
16  The infantry who had been stopped crowded near the bridge in the trampled mud and gazed with that particular feeling of ill-will, estrangement, and ridicule with which troops of different arms usually encounter one another at the clean, smart hussars who moved past them in regular order.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
17  He knew no one, and despite his smart Guardsman's uniform, all these exalted personages passing in the streets in their elegant carriages with their plumes, ribbons, and medals, both courtiers and military men, seemed so immeasurably above him, an insignificant officer of the Guards, that they not only did not wish to, but simply could not, be aware of his existence.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER IX
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