1 Again, after he had ridden a little way, he said to himself: 'they told me at the Commission to go and make my own means of enjoying myself.'
2 "At boss zides, Captain," he heard the voice of the colonel, who, having ridden ahead, had pulled up his horse near the bridge, with a triumphant, cheerful face.
3 Having ridden beyond the village, continually meeting and overtaking soldiers and officers of various regiments, they saw on their left some entrenchments being thrown up, the freshly dug clay of which showed up red.
4 Having ridden round the whole line from right flank to left, Prince Andrew made his way up to the battery from which the staff officer had told him the whole field could be seen.
5 When he had ridden about two miles and had passed the last of the Russian troops, he saw, near a kitchen garden with a ditch round it, two men on horseback facing the ditch.
6 He did not turn his head and did not see those who, judging by the sound of hoofs and voices, had ridden up and stopped near him.
7 Nicholas dismounted, and with Natasha and Petya, who had ridden up, stopped near the hounds, waiting to see how the matter would end.
8 They had hardly ridden up a hill, past a tavern, before they saw a group of horsemen coming toward them.
9 Prince Andrew was somewhat refreshed by having ridden off the dusty highroad along which the troops were moving.
10 The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre's huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden.
11 The fact is that those men with whom you have ridden round the position not only do not help matters, but hinder.
12 On that very meadow he had ridden over the day before, a soldier was lying athwart the rows of scented hay, with his head thrown awkwardly back and his shako off.
13 Having ridden in the smoke past the Sixth Corps, behind the artillery which had been moved forward and was in action, deafening them with the noise of firing, they came to a small wood.
14 Before they had ridden to the outskirts of the forest Petya had considered he must carry out his instructions strictly and return at once.
15 Having ridden up the road, on both sides of which French talk could be heard around the campfires, Dolokhov turned into the courtyard of the landowner's house.