No, life is not over at thirty-one!" Prince Andrei suddenly decided finally and decisively.

But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.

he was one of those diplomats who like and know how to work, and, despite his laziness, he occasionally spent nights at his desk.

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

All such questions as, for instance,of the cause of failure of crops, of the adherence of certain tribes to their ancient belief, etc.--questions which, but for the convenient intervention of the official machine are not, and cannot be solved for ages--received full, unhesitating solution.

He [Vronsky] himself felt that, except that crazy fellow married to Kitty Shcherbatsky, who, quite irrelevantly had with rabid virulence told him a lot of pointless nonsense, every nobleman whose acquaintance he had made had become his partisan.

In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down.

And they, too, passed on, so that Nesvítski did not learn who had been struck on the teeth, or what the ham had to do with it.