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1 —8 uses as in:
approached the city

Definition

to get closer to (near in space, time, quantity, or quality)

This head, with its remarkably broad brow and cheekbones, its handsome, sensual mouth, and its cold, majestic expression, was not disfigured by the approach of death.
Book One — 1805 (74% in)

Other Uses (with this meaning)

It looked as if by that slight motion the army itself was expressing its joy at the approach of the Emperors.
Book Three — 1805 (47% in)
He was in a state of suppressed excitement and irritation, though controlledly calm as a man is at the approach of a long-awaited moment.
Book Three — 1805 (78% in)
Night and day, hardly sleeping at all, she watched him and, terrible to say, often watched him not with hope of finding signs of improvement but wishing to find symptoms of the approach of the end.
Book Ten — 1812 (23% in)
News of the approach of the French came from all sides, and in one village, ten miles from Bogucharovo, a homestead had been looted by French marauders.
Book Ten — 1812 (24% in)
At the approach of danger there are always two voices that speak with equal power in the human soul: one very reasonably tells a man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of escaping it; the other, still more reasonably, says that it is too depressing and painful to think of the danger, since it is not in man's power to foresee everything and avert the general course of events, and it is therefore better to disregard what is painful till it comes, and to think about what...
Book Ten — 1812 (47% in)
The expression on all faces showed the tension people feel at the approach of those in authority.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (75% in)
At the approach of the commander in chief the buzz of talk ceased and all eyes were fixed on Kutuzov who, wearing a white cap with a red band and a padded overcoat that bulged on his round shoulders, moved slowly along the road on his white horse.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (9% in)

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2 —1 use as in:
approached her with the proposal

Definition

to begin communication with someone about something — often a proposal or a delicate topic

But as a youth in love trembles, is unnerved, and dares not utter the thoughts he has dreamed of for nights, but looks around for help or a chance of delay and flight when the longed-for moment comes and he is alone with her, so Rostov, now that he had attained what he had longed for more than anything else in the world, did not know how to approach the Emperor, and a thousand reasons occurred to him why it would be inconvenient, unseemly, and impossible to do so.
Book Three — 1805 (93% in)

approach = begin communication with

There are no more uses of "approach" flagged with this meaning in War and Peace.

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? —151 uses
exact meaning not specified

On approaching the fire he had been going to sit down, but fell.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (14% in)

As the foreman of a spinning mill, when he has set the hands to work, goes round and notices here a spindle that has stopped or there one that creaks or makes more noise than it should, and hastens to check the machine or set it in proper motion, so Anna Pavlovna moved about her drawing room, approaching now a silent, now a too-noisy group, and by a word or slight rearrangement kept the conversational machine in steady, proper, and regular motion.
Book One — 1805 (7% in)
She kept an anxious watch on him when he approached the group round Mortemart to listen to what was being said there, and again when he passed to another group whose center was the abbe.
Book One — 1805 (7% in)
Prince Hippolyte approached the little princess and, bending his face close to her, began to whisper something.
Book One — 1805 (18% in)
Pierre, who had been growing more and more agitated as he listened to all this, rose and approached the princess.
Book One — 1805 (22% in)
"First-rate," said Pierre, looking at Dolokhov, who with a bottle of rum in his hand was approaching the window, from which the light of the sky, the dawn merging with the afterglow of sunset, was visible.
Book One — 1805 (27% in)
She was already growing impatient, and stamped her foot, ready to cry at his not coming at once, when she heard the young man's discreet steps approaching neither quickly nor slowly.
Book One — 1805 (37% in)
Seeing Anna Mikhaylovna and her son, Prince Vasili dismissed the doctor with a bow and approached them silently and with a look of inquiry.
Book One — 1805 (43% in)
But, don't be uneasy," he added, noticing that the count was beginning to breathe heavily and quickly which was always a sign of approaching anger.
Book One — 1805 (50% in)
Pierre approached, looking at her in a childlike way through his spectacles.
Book One — 1805 (54% in)
It was one of those sumptuous but cold apartments known to Pierre only from the front approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water had been spilled on the carpet.
Book One — 1805 (69% in)
He now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected a moment.
Book One — 1805 (73% in)
She approached Pierre with slow, quiet steps.
Book One — 1805 (78% in)
After a few more turns of the lathe he removed his foot from the pedal, wiped his chisel, dropped it into a leather pouch attached to the lathe, and, approaching the table, summoned his daughter.
Book One — 1805 (80% in)
The general looked the captain up and down as he came up panting, slackening his pace as he approached.
Book Two — 1805 (3% in)
"Att-ention!" shouted the regimental commander in a soul-shaking voice which expressed joy for himself, severity for the regiment, and welcome for the approaching chief.
Book Two — 1805 (4% in)
Everyone got up and began watching the movements of our troops below, as plainly visible as if but a stone's throw away, and the movements of the approaching enemy farther off.
Book Two — 1805 (29% in)
Looking down at the waters of the Enns under the bridge, Nesvitski suddenly heard a sound new to him, of something swiftly approaching.... something big, that splashed into the water.
Book Two — 1805 (32% in)
The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel.
Book Two — 1805 (34% in)
"How's this, Colonel?" he shouted as he approached.
Book Two — 1805 (37% in)
Meanwhile Nesvitski, Zherkov, and the officer of the suite were standing together out of range of the shots, watching, now the small group of men with yellow shakos, dark-green jackets braided with cord, and blue riding breeches, who were swarming near the bridge, and then at what was approaching in the distance from the opposite side—the blue uniforms and groups with horses, easily recognizable as artillery.
Book Two — 1805 (39% in)
Throughout the whole army and at headquarters most joyful though erroneous rumors were rife of the imaginary approach of columns from Russia, of some victory gained by the Austrians, and of the retreat of the frightened Bonaparte.
Book Two — 1805 (43% in)
Prince Andrew's joyous feeling was considerably weakened as he approached the door of the minister's room.
Book Two — 1805 (45% in)
The officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into the water, and approaches the tete-de-pont.
Book Two — 1805 (57% in)
Marching thirty miles that stormy night across roadless hills, with his hungry, ill-shod soldiers, and losing a third of his men as stragglers by the way, Bagration came out on the Vienna-Znaim road at Hollabrunn a few hours ahead of the French who were approaching Hollabrunn from Vienna.
Book Two — 1805 (65% in)
Since early morning—despite an injunction not to approach the picket line—the officers had been unable to keep sight-seers away.
Book Two — 1805 (70% in)
By this time they were all approaching Tushin's battery, and a ball struck the ground in front of them.
Book Two — 1805 (76% in)
As he approached, a ringing shot issued from it deafening him and his suite, and in the smoke that suddenly surrounded the gun they could see the gunners who had seized it straining to roll it quickly back to its former position.
Book Two — 1805 (77% in)
Bagration called to him, and Tushin, raising three fingers to his cap with a bashful and awkward gesture not at all like a military salute but like a priest's benediction, approached the general.
Book Two — 1805 (77% in)
Officers who approached him with disturbed countenances became calm; soldiers and officers greeted him gaily, grew more cheerful in his presence, and were evidently anxious to display their courage before him.
Book Two — 1805 (78% in)
"What is this?" thought Prince Andrew approaching the crowd of soldiers.
Book Two — 1805 (79% in)
The staff officer joined in the colonel's appeals, but Bagration did not reply; he only gave an order to cease firing and re-form, so as to give room for the two approaching battalions.
Book Two — 1805 (80% in)
He looked at the approaching Frenchmen, and though but a moment before he had been galloping to get at them and hack them to pieces, their proximity now seemed so awful that he could not believe his eyes.
Book Two — 1805 (87% in)
One ball after another passed over as he approached and he felt a nervous shudder run down his spine.
Book Two — 1805 (92% in)
"What, are you wounded, my lad?" said Tushin, approaching the gun on which Rostov sat.
Book Two — 1805 (94% in)
Of these plans he had not merely one or two in his head but dozens, some only beginning to form themselves, some approaching achievement, and some in course of disintegration.
Book Three — 1805 (0% in)
Prince Vasili approached first, and she kissed the bold forehead that bent over her hand and answered his question by saying that, on the contrary, she remembered him quite well.
Book Three — 1805 (23% in)
From the direction of Olmutz in front of them, a group was seen approaching.
Book Three — 1805 (47% in)
It seemed as though not the trumpeters were playing, but as if the army itself, rejoicing at the Emperors' approach, had naturally burst into music.
Book Three — 1805 (47% in)
Rostov, standing in the front lines of Kutuzov's army which the Tsar approached first, experienced the same feeling as every other man in that army: a feeling of self-forgetfulness, a proud consciousness of might, and a passionate attraction to him who was the cause of this triumph.
Book Three — 1805 (48% in)
Rostov was not far from the trumpeters, and with his keen sight had recognized the Tsar and watched his approach.
Book Three — 1805 (48% in)
Not daring to look round and without looking round, he was ecstatically conscious of his approach.
Book Three — 1805 (57% in)
He felt it not only from the sound of the hoofs of the approaching cavalcade, but because as he drew near everything grew brighter, more joyful, more significant, and more festive around him.
Book Three — 1805 (57% in)
The sound of horse's hoofs approaching at a trot along the line of hussars was heard, and out of the foggy darkness the figure of a sergeant of hussars suddenly appeared, looming huge as an elephant.
Book Three — 1805 (71% in)
Only when approaching Bagration did Rostov let his horse gallop again, and with his hand at the salute rode up to the general.
Book Three — 1805 (72% in)
The sailor rarely cares to know the latitude in which his ship is sailing, but on the day of battle—heaven knows how and whence—a stern note of which all are conscious sounds in the moral atmosphere of an army, announcing the approach of something decisive and solemn, and awakening in the men an unusual curiosity.
Book Three — 1805 (74% in)
A mounted general separated himself from the infantry and approached Kutuzov.
Book Three — 1805 (84% in)
No, certainly I must not approach him, I must not intrude on his reflections.
Book Three — 1805 (94% in)
Impelled by the crowd, they had got wedged in at the approach to the dam and, jammed in on all sides, had stopped because a horse in front had fallen under a cannon and the crowd were dragging it out.
Book Three — 1805 (95% in)
He listened and heard the sound of approaching horses, and voices speaking French.
Book Three — 1805 (97% in)
Some of the most important old men were the center of groups which even strangers approached respectfully to hear the voices of well-known men.
Book Four — 1806 (23% in)
They had the right to fire when they liked as they approached the barrier.
Book Four — 1806 (39% in)
She approached him, saw his face, and something gave way within her.
Book Four — 1806 (51% in)
Then the voice said something more, Demyan replied, and the steps in the felt boots approached the unseen bend of the staircase more rapidly.
Book Four — 1806 (61% in)
His approaching departure did not prevent his amusing himself, but rather gave zest to his pleasures.
Book Four — 1806 (71% in)
As they approached the house, Prince Andrew with a smile drew Pierre's attention to a commotion going on at the back porch.
Book Five — 1806-07 (61% in)
Toward ten o'clock the men servants rushed to the front door, hearing the bells of the old prince's carriage approaching.
Book Five — 1806-07 (66% in)
On approaching it, Rostov felt as he had done when approaching his home in Moscow.
Book Five — 1806-07 (68% in)
On approaching it, Rostov felt as he had done when approaching his home in Moscow.
Book Five — 1806-07 (68% in)
In the middle of the game, the officers saw some wagons approaching with fifteen hussars on their skinny horses behind them.
Book Five — 1806-07 (74% in)
On approaching Alexander he raised his hat, and as he did so, Rostov, with his cavalryman's eye, could not help noticing that Napoleon did not sit well or firmly in the saddle.
Book Five — 1806-07 (94% in)
Alexander and Napoleon, with the long train of their suites, approached the right flank of the Preobrazhensk battalion and came straight up to the crowd standing there.
Book Five — 1806-07 (95% in)
Then he approached Lazarev (who rolled his eyes and persistently gazed at his own monarch), looked round at the Emperor Alexander to imply that what he was now doing was done for the sake of his ally, and the small white hand holding the Order touched one of Lazarev's buttons.
Book Five — 1806-07 (96% in)
During the dull day, in the course of which he was entertained by his elderly hosts and by the more important of the visitors (the old count's house was crowded on account of an approaching name day), Prince Andrew repeatedly glanced at Natasha, gay and laughing among the younger members of the company, and asked himself each time, "What is she thinking about?
Book Six — 1808-10 (4% in)
He recognized her, guessed her feelings, saw that it was her debut, remembered her conversation at the window, and with an expression of pleasure on his face approached Countess Rostova.
Book Six — 1808-10 (60% in)
"I have the pleasure of being already acquainted, if the countess remembers me," said Prince Andrew with a low and courteous bow quite belying Peronskaya's remarks about his rudeness, and approaching Natasha he held out his arm to grasp her waist before he had completed his invitation.
Book Six — 1808-10 (60% in)
"I know your sister too little," replied Prince Andrew, with a sarcastic smile under which he wished to hide his embarrassment, "to be able to solve so delicate a question, and then I have noticed that the less attractive a woman is the more constant she is likely to be," he added, and looked up at Pierre who was just approaching them.
Book Six — 1808-10 (76% in)
"I.... but no, I will talk to you later on," and with a strange light in his eyes and restlessness in his movements, Prince Andrew approached Natasha and sat down beside her.
Book Six — 1808-10 (78% in)
Since the ball he had felt the approach of a fit of nervous depression and had made desperate efforts to combat it.
Book Six — 1808-10 (80% in)
Often, approaching the chest of drawers containing this secret treasure, Princess Mary paused, uncertain whether the time had not already come to put her project into execution.
Book Six — 1808-10 (99% in)
Thoughts of home grew stronger the nearer he approached it—far stronger, as though this feeling of his was subject to the law by which the force of attraction is in inverse proportion to the square of the distance.
Book Seven — 1810-11 (5% in)
When they had gone a little less than a mile, five more riders with dogs appeared out of the mist, approaching the Rostovs.
Book Seven — 1810-11 (17% in)
Then, unexpectedly, as often happens, the sound of the hunt suddenly approached, as if the hounds in full cry and Daniel ulyulyuing were just in front of them.
Book Seven — 1810-11 (23% in)
By the way the hunt approached and receded, by the cries of the dogs whose notes were familiar to him, by the way the voices of the huntsmen approached, receded, and rose, he realized what was happening at the copse.
Book Seven — 1810-11 (25% in)
By the way the hunt approached and receded, by the cries of the dogs whose notes were familiar to him, by the way the voices of the huntsmen approached, receded, and rose, he realized what was happening at the copse.
Book Seven — 1810-11 (25% in)
Nicholas asked himself as the wolf approached him coming from the copse.
Book Seven — 1810-11 (27% in)
"A full-grown one?" asked Ilagin as he approached the whip who had sighted the hare—and not without agitation he looked round and whistled to Erza.
Book Seven — 1810-11 (39% in)
The time for Prince Andrew's return and marriage was approaching, but his request to her to prepare his father for it had not been carried out; in fact, it seemed as if matters were quite hopeless, for at every mention of the young Countess Rostova the old prince (who apart from that was usually in a bad temper) lost control of himself.
Book Eight — 1811-12 (8% in)
Princess Mary turned with absent-minded questioning look to Pierre, who hat in hand and with a smile on his face was the last of the guests to approach her after the old prince had gone out and they were left alone in the drawing room.
Book Eight — 1811-12 (18% in)
After five minutes of irksome, constrained conversation, they heard the sound of slippered feet rapidly approaching.
Book Eight — 1811-12 (33% in)
Countess Bezukhova turned smiling to the newcomer, and Natasha, following the direction of that look, saw an exceptionally handsome adjutant approaching their box with a self-assured yet courteous bearing.
Book Eight — 1811-12 (41% in)
Having looked at Natasha he approached his sister, laid his well gloved hand on the edge of her box, nodded to her, and leaning forward asked a question, with a motion toward Natasha.
Book Eight — 1811-12 (42% in)
Natasha with a gay, coquettish smile talked to him, and congratulated on his approaching wedding that same Boris with whom she had formerly been in love.
Book Eight — 1811-12 (42% in)
She felt happy and as if she were blossoming under the praise of this dear Countess Bezukhova who had formerly seemed to her so unapproachable and important and was now so kind to her.
Book Eight — 1811-12 (56% in)
Natasha looked from one to the other as a hunted and wounded animal looks at the approaching dogs and sportsmen.
Book Eight — 1811-12 (88% in)
At dinner the talk turned on the war, the approach of which was becoming evident.
Book Eight — 1811-12 (96% in)
A French noncommissioned officer of hussars, in crimson uniform and a shaggy cap, shouted to the approaching Balashev to halt.
Book Nine — 1812 (13% in)
He felt that the condition he was in could not continue long, that a catastrophe was coming which would change his whole life, and he impatiently sought everywhere for signs of that approaching catastrophe.
Book Nine — 1812 (79% in)
As he approached the Kremlin he even began to avoid being crushed and resolutely stuck out his elbows in a menacing way.
Book Nine — 1812 (88% in)
He felt that he no longer looked presentable, and feared that if he were now to approach the gentlemen-in-waiting in that plight he would not be admitted to the Emperor.
Book Nine — 1812 (88% in)
He too approached that group and listened with a kindly smile and nods of approval, as he always did, to what the speaker was saying.
Book Nine — 1812 (94% in)
As he approached Smolensk he heard the sounds of distant firing, but these did not impress him.
Book Ten — 1812 (8% in)
A group of bareheaded peasants was approaching across the meadow toward the prince.
Book Ten — 1812 (16% in)
"No, he's not dead—it's impossible!" she told herself and approached him, and repressing the terror that seized her, she pressed her lips to his cheek.
Book Ten — 1812 (27% in)
She softly approached Princess Mary, sighed, kissed her, and immediately began to cry.
Book Ten — 1812 (31% in)
Two tall old peasants with wrinkled faces and scanty beards emerged from the tavern, smiling, staggering, and singing some incoherent song, and approached the officers.
Book Ten — 1812 (36% in)
The lieutenant colonel of hussars smiled beneath his mustache at the orderly's tone, dismounted, gave his horse to a dispatch runner, and approached Bolkonski with a slight bow.
Book Ten — 1812 (41% in)
With the enemy's approach to Moscow, the Moscovites' view of their situation did not grow more serious but on the contrary became even more frivolous, as always happens with people who see a great danger approaching.
Book Ten — 1812 (47% in)
With the enemy's approach to Moscow, the Moscovites' view of their situation did not grow more serious but on the contrary became even more frivolous, as always happens with people who see a great danger approaching.
Book Ten — 1812 (47% in)
The worse everything became, especially his own affairs, the better was Pierre pleased and the more evident was it that the catastrophe he expected was approaching.
Book Ten — 1812 (51% in)
At dawn next day Pierre was approaching Mozhaysk.
Book Ten — 1812 (52% in)
An elderly sergeant who had approached the officer while he was giving these explanations had waited in silence for him to finish speaking, but at this point, evidently not liking the officer's remark, interrupted him.
Book Ten — 1812 (59% in)
Someone, a very important personage judging by the haste with which way was made for him, was approaching the icon.
Book Ten — 1812 (60% in)
Bennigsen spoke to a general who approached him, and began explaining the whole position of our troops.
Book Ten — 1812 (63% in)
Pierre did not know that these troops were not, as Bennigsen supposed, put there to defend the position, but were in a concealed position as an ambush, that they should not be seen and might be able to strike an approaching enemy unexpectedly.
Book Ten — 1812 (63% in)
He had approached the shed full of animation, but on seeing Prince Andrew's face he felt constrained and ill at ease.
Book Ten — 1812 (65% in)
After they had gone Pierre approached Prince Andrew and was about to start a conversation when they heard the clatter of three horses' hoofs on the road not far from the shed, and looking in that direction Prince Andrew recognized Wolzogen and Clausewitz accompanied by a Cossack.
Book Ten — 1812 (67% in)
De Beausset bowed low, with that courtly French bow which only the old retainers of the Bourbons knew how to make, and approached him, presenting an envelope.
Book Ten — 1812 (70% in)
An aide-de-camp approached with gliding steps and offered him a gold snuffbox, which he took.
Book Ten — 1812 (71% in)
"A live one!" shouted a man as a whistling shell approached.
Book Ten — 1812 (81% in)
As the flames of the fire hidden within come more and more vividly and rapidly from an approaching thundercloud, so, as if in opposition to what was taking place, the lightning of hidden fire growing more and more intense glowed in the faces of these men.
Book Ten — 1812 (82% in)
When he came to himself he was sitting on the ground leaning on his hands; the ammunition wagons he had been approaching no longer existed, only charred green boards and rags littered the scorched grass, and a horse, dangling fragments of its shaft behind it, galloped past, while another horse lay, like Pierre, on the ground, uttering prolonged and piercing cries.
Book Ten — 1812 (83% in)
As soon as they had descended into that hollow, the smoke of the guns and musketry on the fleches grew so dense that it covered the whole approach on that side of it.
Book Ten — 1812 (85% in)
Berthier approached and suggested that they should ride along the line to ascertain the position of affairs.
Book Ten — 1812 (89% in)
Wolzogen, nonchalantly stretching his legs, approached Kutuzov with a half-contemptuous smile on his lips, scarcely touching the peak of his cap.
Book Ten — 1812 (90% in)
"Here it comes.... this one is coming our way again!" he thought, listening to an approaching whistle in the hidden region of smoke.
Book Ten — 1812 (93% in)
The adjutant, having obeyed this instruction, approached Prince Andrew.
Book Ten — 1812 (93% in)
By adopting smaller and smaller elements of motion we only approach a solution of the problem, but never reach it.
Book Eleven — 1812 (0% in)
The French army pushed on to Moscow, its goal, its impetus ever increasing as it neared its aim, just as the velocity of a falling body increases as it approaches the earth.
Book Eleven — 1812 (3% in)
An old gentleman wearing a star and another official, a German wearing a cross round his neck, approached the speaker.
Book Eleven — 1812 (23% in)
The count, pipe in hand, was pacing up and down the room, when Natasha, her face distorted by anger, burst in like a tempest and approached her mother with rapid steps.
Book Eleven — 1812 (38% in)
Pierre went round the study, approached the cupboard in which the manuscripts were kept, and took out what had once been one of the most important, the holy of holies of the order.
Book Eleven — 1812 (44% in)
"Here she is, the reward for all those fainthearted men," he reflected, glancing at those near him and at the troops who were approaching and forming up.
Book Eleven — 1812 (46% in)
A shopkeeper with red pimples on his cheeks near the nose, and a calm, persistent, calculating expression on his plump face, hurriedly and ostentatiously approached the officer, swinging his arms.
Book Eleven — 1812 (51% in)
Murat approached the interpreter and told him to ask where the Russian army was.
Book Eleven — 1812 (67% in)
Yes, I will approach.... and then suddenly.... with pistol or dagger?
Book Eleven — 1812 (73% in)
What's the matter?" made Natasha approach more swiftly to what was lying in the corner.
Book Eleven — 1812 (87% in)
As Pierre approached that street the smoke became denser and denser—he even felt the heat of the fire.
Book Eleven — 1812 (94% in)
But Pierre, though he felt that something unusual was happening around him, did not realize that he was approaching the fire.
Book Eleven — 1812 (94% in)
When Rostov approached her she was standing settling up for the game.
Book Twelve — 1812 (24% in)
Then two pairs of Frenchmen approached the criminals and at the officer's command took the two convicts who stood first in the row.
Book Twelve — 1812 (59% in)
The convicts stopped when they reached the post and, while sacks were being brought, looked dumbly around as a wounded beast looks at an approaching huntsman.
Book Twelve — 1812 (59% in)
Thanks to her activity and energy, which infected her fellow travelers, they approached Yaroslavl by the end of the second week.
Book Twelve — 1812 (78% in)
But as she approached Yaroslavl the thought of what might await her there—not after many days, but that very evening—again presented itself to her and her agitation increased to its utmost limit.
Book Twelve — 1812 (79% in)
She understood those words to mean that he had suddenly softened and that this softening and gentleness were signs of approaching death.
Book Twelve — 1812 (85% in)
What would have happened if on approaching Tarutino, Napoleon had attacked the Russians with but a tenth of the energy he had shown when he attacked them at Smolensk?
Book Thirteen — 1812 (4% in)
On approaching Tarutino Kutuzov noticed cavalrymen leading their horses to water across the road along which he was driving.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (20% in)
He remained in Moscow till October, letting the troops plunder the city; then, hesitating whether to leave a garrison behind him, he quitted Moscow, approached Kutuzov without joining battle, turned to the right and reached Malo-Yaroslavets, again without attempting to break through and take the road Kutuzov took, but retiring instead to Mozhaysk along the devastated Smolensk road.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (34% in)
And yet with his experience of war he did not order all the superfluous vehicles to be burned, as he had done with those of a certain marshal when approaching Moscow.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (49% in)
A French corporal, with coat unbuttoned in a homely way, a skullcap on his head, and a short pipe in his mouth, came from behind a corner of the shed and approached Pierre with a friendly wink.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (53% in)
When that door was opened and the prisoners, crowding against one another like a flock of sheep, squeezed into the exit, Pierre pushed his way forward and approached that very captain who as the corporal had assured him was ready to do anything for him.
Book Thirteen — 1812 (66% in)
The approaching riders having descended a decline were no longer visible, but they reappeared a few minutes later.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (19% in)
As they approached the watchhouse Denisov stopped, peering into the forest.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (29% in)
Among the trees a man with long legs and long, swinging arms, wearing a short jacket, bast shoes, and a Kazan hat, was approaching with long, light steps.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (29% in)
When he espied Denisov he hastily threw something into the bushes, removed his sodden hat by its floppy brim, and approached his commander.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (29% in)
Having ridden in, he dismounted and approached a big blazing campfire, around which sat several men talking noisily.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (46% in)
Through the smoke, as he approached the gate, Petya saw Dolokhov, whose face was of a pale-greenish tint, shouting to his men.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (61% in)
He hugged the first soldier who approached him, and kissed him, weeping.
Book Fourteen — 1812 (81% in)
There was running to and fro and whispering; another troyka flew furiously up, and then all eyes were turned on an approaching sleigh in which the figures of the Emperor and Volkonski could already be descried.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (18% in)
Attempted drives from east to west—similar to the contrary movements of 1805, 1807, and 1809—precede the great westward movement; there is the same coalescence into a group of enormous dimensions; the same adhesion of the people of Central Europe to the movement; the same hesitation midway, and the same increasing rapidity as the goal is approached.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (42% in)
However often experiment and reasoning may show a man that under the same conditions and with the same character he will do the same thing as before, yet when under the same conditions and with the same character he approaches for the thousandth time the action that always ends in the same way, he feels as certainly convinced as before the experiment that he can act as he pleases.
Book Fifteen — 1812-13 (90% in)

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