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arouse hostility or indifference where there had formerly been affection or sympathy
- Prince Andrew had grown thinner, paler, and more manly-looking, but what amazed and estranged Pierre till he got used to it were his inertia and a wrinkle on his brow indicating prolonged concentration on some one thought.Book Five — 1806-07 (49% in)
- 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.Book Two — 1805 (33% in)
- She held out her hand to him, and with a mixed feeling of estrangement and tenderness pressed her lips to his forehead as he stooped to kiss her hand.Book Six — 1808-10 (86% in)
- In his words, his tone, and especially in that calm, almost antagonistic look could be felt an estrangement from everything belonging to this world, terrible in one who is alive.Book Twelve — 1812 (87% in)
- Besides a feeling of aloofness from everybody Natasha was feeling a special estrangement from the members of her own family.Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (2% in)
- Occasionally, and it was always just after they had been happiest together, they suddenly had a feeling of estrangement and hostility, which occurred most frequently during Countess Mary's pregnancies, and this was such a time.Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (53% in)
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