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1  I live alone in the country, as I used to.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 25
2  This he used to call his day of reckoning or faire la lessive.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 19
3  "He will get angry, and will not listen to you," they used to say.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
4  Yes; I used to teach in it myself, and do teach still, but we have a first-rate schoolmistress now.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
5  She was not the same as she used to be, nor was she as she had been in the carriage; she was quite different.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 9
6  On that day of the week and at that time of day people of one set, all acquainted with one another, used to meet on the ice.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 9
7  She was not alone; all around was that luxurious setting of idleness that she was used to, and she felt less wretched than at home.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 17
8  The talks he had been having with the peasants in the further village had shown that they were beginning to get used to their new position.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 30
9  Levin and he were very friendly, and so Levin used to venture to sound Sviazhsky, to try to get at the very foundation of his view of life; but it was always in vain.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
10  Vronsky had told Kitty that both he and his brother were so used to obeying their mother that they never made up their minds to any important undertaking without consulting her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: Chapter 12
11  Vronsky was used to princes, but, either because he had himself changed of late, or that he was in too close proximity to the prince, that week seemed fearfully wearisome to him.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 1
12  The chief secretary of his department and his private secretary were aware of this, and used to warn women who came with petitions on no account to give way to tears, if they did not want to ruin their chances.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 13
13  But though he was taking a holiday now, that is to say, he was doing no writing, he was so used to intellectual activity that he liked to put into concise and eloquent shape the ideas that occurred to him, and liked to have someone to listen to him.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
14  Her guests stepped out at the wide entrance, and the stout porter, who used to read the newspapers in the mornings behind the glass door, to the edification of the passers-by, noiselessly opened the immense door, letting the visitors pass by him into the house.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 6
15  Sergey Ivanovitch used to say that he knew and liked the peasantry, and he often talked to the peasants, which he knew how to do without affectation or condescension, and from every such conversation he would deduce general conclusions in favor of the peasantry and in confirmation of his knowing them.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 1
16  And suddenly he recalled how they used to go to bed together as children, and how they only waited till Fyodor Bogdanitch was out of the room to fling pillows at each other and laugh, laugh irrepressibly, so that even their awe of Fyodor Bogdanitch could not check the effervescing, overbrimming sense of life and happiness.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 31
17  She remembered the simple delight expressed on the round, good-humored face of Anna Pavlovna at their meetings; she remembered their secret confabulations about the invalid, their plots to draw him away from the work which was forbidden him, and to get him out-of-doors; the devotion of the youngest boy, who used to call her "my Kitty," and would not go to bed without her.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 33
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