All 4 Uses of
levy
in
War and Peace
- "The Emperor is to be here tomorrow…. there's to be an Extraordinary Meeting of the nobility, and they are talking of a levy of ten men per thousand.†
Chpt 9
- …that threatened Russia, the hopes the Emperor placed on Moscow and especially on its illustrious nobility, Sonya, with a quiver in her voice due chiefly to the attention that was being paid to her, read the last words: "We ourselves will not delay to appear among our people in that Capital and in other parts of our realm for consultation, and for the direction of all our levies, both those now barring the enemy's path and those freshly formed to defeat him wherever he may appear.†
Chpt 9
- It is natural for us who were not living in those days to imagine that when half Russia had been conquered and the inhabitants were fleeing to distant provinces, and one levy after another was being raised for the defense of the fatherland, all Russians from the greatest to the least were solely engaged in sacrificing themselves, saving their fatherland, or weeping over its downfall.†
Chpt 12
- He tried to prove to the Emperor the impossibility of levying fresh troops, spoke of the hardships already endured by the people, of the possibility of failure and so forth.†
Chpt 15 *
Definition:
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(levy as in: levy a tax) a charge imposed