The bees were buzzing among the flowers.
He smiled, revealing fangs among the neat row of white teeth.
The sailors divided his money among themselves; and the ship sailed on.
Iliana has been a favorite among them.
But the five phenomena I chose to tackle in this book are among the great blights on humanity that I believe the Internet and technology will help solve.
We'd discussed this point among ourselves numerous times over the past months.
The people, with Petya among them, rushed toward the balcony.
Yes, among other things.
He strolled among the self-conscious pets and people, smiling and looking until he was sure she wasn't there.
Two childish voices laughed merrily at this action, and Dorothy was sure they were in no danger among such light-hearted folks, even if those folks couldn't be seen.
I thought how strange it was that such precious seeds of truth and wisdom should have fallen among the tares of ignorance and corruption.
You will find much of your power diminished, especially among those who used to bow to you.
He was the only neutral party among our father.s sons.
I have made some sacrifices to a sense of duty, and among others have sacrificed this pleasure also.
The last thing she wanted was rivalry among the men.
But unlike the floating package that danced among the rocks, the tin had not floated away.
No such system of laws controls relations among nations, no significant world police force exists, and the world court system is very weak.
In the past, we simply had division of labor among people.
There was a rustling among the crowd and it again subsided, so that Pierre distinctly heard the pleasantly human voice of the Emperor saying with emotion:
Among Mrs. Marsh's attributes was mind reading.
"Divide it among the poor people who need it so badly," said some.
Several persons, among them the elderly lady and Anna Pavlovna, did however smile.
Perhaps we may see that wolf among the trees.
Jule is still not in favor among my kind.
Pretty sure he's the only one among us who was able to out-manipulate her.
It's an honor to be among the first to welcome you officially to the family.
At under five and a half feet, she wasn't sure how she was supposed to find her brother among the people around her.
The men spoke among themselves, swapping war stories and discussing the Tucson Sector's influx of vamps.
The glimmering lights were nestled among rocks and dirt.
Among the servants there was a little page whose name was Carl.
I'm happy you're among us.
Among the places I visited were West Point, Tarrytown, the home of Washington Irving, where I walked through "Sleepy Hollow."
They belong to the rich man who lives in the big white house there among the trees.
Something was moving among the rocks at the bottom of the chasm.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
Everything the vines touched they crushed, and our adventurers were indeed thankful to have escaped being cast among them.
Among the watchers at Charlestown was a brave young man named Paul Revere.
You have a rare ability among our kind.
"Send Tymkyn to find Harmony," Gabriel said, referring to the top tracker among his death-dealers.
As the baby of the three, he'd always been the rock star among them.
"There is a legend among the humans of the phoenix, who rises from his own ashes," the Watcher replied.
There was a traitor among the fifty-odd death-dealers he had above ground, and he'd assigned twelve-hour shifts to keep an eye on the apartment where he sent Deidre.
I'd as soon die here as live much longer among these cruel and heartless people.
He gave these to a shepherd and ordered him to bring them up among his sheep, far from the homes of men.
It should be noted that the Byzantines were among the most civilized people in all the world at that time.
So he rattled on, telling all the gossip he had heard among the orderlies.
Among those whom Julie's guests happened to choose to gossip about were the Rostovs.
He remembered that he had seen many bees flying among these flowers and gathering honey from them.
All through the night he sat among the abbey cows, and sang his wonderful song.
I don't suppose there are any shrinks among the Naturals.
A diplomat by nature, he had long served in the peacekeeping capacity among his brothers, before he was rendered dead-dead seven months before.
Often, when he was a little lad, he took long walks among the trees with his mother.
Hundreds of peasants, among them the Bogucharovo folk, suddenly began selling their cattle and moving in whole families toward the southeast.
One real runaway slave, among the rest, whom I helped to forward toward the north star.
As I walked in the woods to see the birds and squirrels, so I walked in the village to see the men and boys; instead of the wind among the pines I heard the carts rattle.
Almost every New England boy among my contemporaries shouldered a fowling-piece between the ages of ten and fourteen; and his hunting and fishing grounds were not limited, like the preserves of an English nobleman, but were more boundless even than those of a savage.
I would advise you to set in the spade down yonder among the ground-nuts, where you see the johnswort waving.
I think that I may warrant you one worm to every three sods you turn up, if you look well in among the roots of the grass, as if you were weeding.
There are a few who remember his little patch among the walnuts, which he let grow up till he should be old and need them; but a younger and whiter speculator got them at last.
I had just sunk my head on this when the bells rung fire, and in hot haste the engines rolled that way, led by a straggling troop of men and boys, and I among the foremost, for I had leaped the brook.
These ice-cutters are a merry race, full of jest and sport, and when I went among them they were wont to invite me to saw pit-fashion with them, I standing underneath.
In almost all climes the tortoise and the frog are among the precursors and heralds of this season, and birds fly with song and glancing plumage, and plants spring and bloom, and winds blow, to correct this slight oscillation of the poles and preserve the equilibrium of nature.
If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonable experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.
I am fond of you, especially as you are the one live man among our whole set.
Another voice, from a man of medium height with clear blue eyes, particularly striking among all these drunken voices by its sober ring, cried from the window: "Come here; part the bets!"
Both Kuragin and Dolokhov were at that time notorious among the rakes and scapegraces of Petersburg.
At this Natasha dashed swiftly among the flower tubs and hid there.
Then she slipped down among the flowerpots on the other side of the tubs and stood, hanging her head.
(She used the word "diplomat," which was just then much in vogue among the children, in the special sense they attached to it.)
But I just wish to say, to avoid misunderstandings, that you are quite mistaken if you reckon me or my mother among such people.
Around him everyone began to stir: steps were audible and whispers, among which Anna Mikhaylovna's was the most distinct.
This young man, of whom I spoke to you last summer, is so noble-minded and full of that real youthfulness which one seldom finds nowadays among our old men of twenty and, particularly, he is so frank and has so much heart.
"The hours are the same, and the lathe, and also the mathematics and my geometry lessons," said Princess Mary gleefully, as if her lessons in geometry were among the greatest delights of her life.
Buonaparte has become a great commander among them!
A member of the Hofkriegsrath from Vienna had come to Kutuzov the day before with proposals and demands for him to join up with the army of the Archduke Ferdinand and Mack, and Kutuzov, not considering this junction advisable, meant, among other arguments in support of his view, to show the Austrian general the wretched state in which the troops arrived from Russia.
Beside Kutuzov sat an Austrian general, in a white uniform that looked strange among the Russian black ones.
These gentlemen talked among themselves and sometimes laughed.
Prince Andrew stepped forward from among the suite and said in French:
On Kutuzov's staff, among his fellow officers and in the army generally, Prince Andrew had, as he had had in Petersburg society, two quite opposite reputations.
At headquarters and among the troops near by the news spread that the Emperor was unwell.
A freak among freaks.
Wooden birds fluttered among the trees and wooden cows were browsing upon the wooden grass; but the most amazing things of all were the wooden people--the creatures known as Gargoyles.
He sends soldiers among us to take away our liberty.
There were several prominent Boston physicians among them.
Next rolls Thomaston lime, a prime lot, which will get far among the hills before it gets slacked.
But among these people Prince Andrew knew how to take his stand so that they respected and even feared him.
That same evening there was an animated discussion among the squadron's officers in Denisov's quarters.
Among the field guns on the brow of the hill the general in command of the rearguard stood with a staff officer, scanning the country through his fieldglass.
They say there are Italian girls among them.
Several of our men fell, among them the round-faced officer who had marched so gaily and complacently.
In among the hindmost of these men wearing similar shakos was a Russian hussar.
Among the limbers lay several dead men.
"I cannot be afraid," thought he, and dismounted slowly among the guns.
"How was it a gun was abandoned?" asked Bagration, frowning, not so much at the captain as at those who were laughing, among whom Zherkov laughed loudest.
Oh, she is a pearl among women, Princess, he added, turning to Princess Mary.
Among the gentlemen of the suite, Rostov noticed Bolkonski, sitting his horse indolently and carelessly.
The Emperor! was suddenly heard among the hussars.
And Rostov got up and went wandering among the campfires, dreaming of what happiness it would be to die--not in saving the Emperor's life (he did not even dare to dream of that), but simply to die before his eyes.
Austrian column guides were moving in and out among the Russian troops and served as heralds of the advance.
Prince Andrew was behind, among the immense number forming the commander-in-chief's suite.
Among them were grooms leading the Tsar's beautiful relay horses covered with embroidered cloths.
Still the cannon balls continued regularly to whistle and flop onto the ice and into the water and oftenest of all among the crowd that covered the dam, the pond, and the bank.
The men who set the tone in conversation--Count Rostopchin, Prince Yuri Dolgorukov, Valuev, Count Markov, and Prince Vyazemski--did not show themselves at the club, but met in private houses in intimate circles, and the Moscovites who took their opinions from others--Ilya Rostov among them--remained for a while without any definite opinion on the subject of the war and without leaders.
A minority of those present were casual guests--chiefly young men, among whom were Denisov, Rostov, and Dolokhov--who was now again an officer in the Semenov regiment.
He's not among the prisoners nor among the killed!
I have an adored, a priceless mother, and two or three friends--you among them--and as for the rest I only care about them in so far as they are harmful or useful.
As soon as he entered he noticed and felt the tension of the amorous air in the house, and also noticed a curious embarrassment among some of those present.
There were many pretty girls and the Rostov girls were among the prettiest.
One thing he continually realized as he read that book: the joy, hitherto unknown to him, of believing in the possibility of attaining perfection, and in the possibility of active brotherly love among men, which Joseph Alexeevich had revealed to him.
Among them stood a man whose white shirt was stained with blood.
Bogucharovo lay in a flat uninteresting part of the country among fields and forests of fir and birch, which were partly cut down.
That spring a new disease broke out among the soldiers, a swelling of the arms, legs, and face, which the doctors attributed to eating this root.
Boris was among the few present at the Niemen on the day the two Emperors met.
He noted this down that same evening, among other facts he felt to be of historic importance.
Again the crowd of members of the suite and street gazers (among whom was Rostov) moved nearer to the Emperor.
There he found so many people, among them officers who, like himself, had come in civilian clothes, that he had difficulty in getting a dinner.
The coarse evergreen color of the small fir trees scattered here and there among the birches was an unpleasant reminder of winter.
With its huge ungainly limbs sprawling unsymmetrically, and its gnarled hands and fingers, it stood an aged, stern, and scornful monster among the smiling birch trees.
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?
Among the many young men who frequented her house every day, Boris Drubetskoy, who had already achieved great success in the service, was the most intimate friend of the Bezukhov household since Helene's return from Erfurt.
Among the men who very soon became frequent visitors at the Rostovs' house in Petersburg were Boris, Pierre whom the count had met in the street and dragged home with him, and Berg who spent whole days at the Rostovs' and paid the eldest daughter, Countess Vera, the attentions a young man pays when he intends to propose.
Don't you see the plumes?... was whispered among the crowd.
She was not concerned about the Emperor or any of those great people whom Peronskaya was pointing out--she had but one thought: Is it possible no one will ask me, that I shall not be among the first to dance?
Next day Prince Andrew called at a few houses he had not visited before, and among them at the Rostovs' with whom he had renewed acquaintance at the ball.
They had not yet had a loud conversation among the men and a dispute about something important and clever.
Though Daniel was not a big man, to see him in a room was like seeing a horse or a bear on the floor among the furniture and surroundings of human life.
With his hand on his saddlebow, he was ready to dismount and stab the wolf, when she suddenly thrust her head up from among that mass of dogs, and then her forepaws were on the edge of the gully.
Half an hour later there appeared among the other mummers in the ballroom an old lady in a hooped skirt--this was Nicholas.
Kuragin was much more sensible and simple with women than among men.
Countess Bezukhova was present among other Russian ladies who had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna and eclipsed the refined Polish ladies by her massive, so-called Russian type of beauty.
Balashev, who was on the alert all through the dinner, replied that just as "all roads lead to Rome," so all roads lead to Moscow: there were many roads, and "among them the road through Poltava, which Charles XII chose."
Among the opinions and voices in this immense, restless, brilliant, and proud sphere, Prince Andrew noticed the following sharply defined subdivisions of tendencies and parties:
From among all these parties, just at the time Prince Andrew reached the army, another, a ninth party, was being formed and was beginning to raise its voice.
The doctor, whether from lack of means or because he did not like to part from his young wife in the early days of their marriage, took her about with him wherever the hussar regiment went and his jealousy had become a standing joke among the hussar officers.
One Uhlan stopped, another who was on foot flung himself to the ground to avoid being knocked over, and a riderless horse fell in among the hussars.
She included among her enemies the creditors and all who had business dealings with her father, and always at the thought of enemies and those who hated her she remembered Anatole who had done her so much harm--and though he did not hate her she gladly prayed for him as for an enemy.
Among these letters was one from Nicholas Rostov to his father.
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.
Pierre was among those who saw him come out from the merchants' hall with tears of emotion in his eyes.
The men soon accepted Pierre into their family, adopted him, gave him a nickname ("our gentleman"), and made kindly fun of him among themselves.
The prisoners were brought down from the battery and among them was a wounded French general, whom the officers surrounded.
Prince Andrew's regiment was among the reserves which till after one o'clock were stationed inactive behind Semenovsk, under heavy artillery fire.
My God!-- voices among the officers were heard saying.
Some crows, scenting blood, flew among the birch trees cawing impatiently.
Murmurs arose among the wounded who were waiting.
No jokes, or laughter, or smiles even, were seen among all these men.
And all these groups, while talking among themselves, tried to keep near the commander-in-chief (whose bench formed the center of the gathering) and to speak so that he might overhear them.
Among those who ventured to doubt the justifiability of the proposed marriage was Helene's mother, Princess Kuragina.
The three soldiers were eating and talking among themselves, taking no notice of him.
"The dishes must go in here among the carpets," said she.
"These--yes, these must go among the carpets," she said, referring to the Saxony china dishes.
When he was informed that among others awaiting him in his reception room there was a Frenchman who had brought a letter from his wife, the Countess Helene, he felt suddenly overcome by that sense of confusion and hopelessness to which he was apt to succumb.
At that very time, at ten in the morning of the second of September, Napoleon was standing among his troops on the Poklonny Hill looking at the panorama spread out before him.
Meanwhile an agitated consultation was being carried on in whispers among his generals and marshals at the rear of his suite.
Here and there among the cells containing dead brood and honey an angry buzzing can sometimes be heard.
In a third place a crowd of bees, crushing one another, attack some victim and fight and smother it, and the victim, enfeebled or killed, drops from above slowly and lightly as a feather, among the heap of corpses.
Tradesmen and their assistants (of whom there were but few) moved about among the soldiers quite bewildered.
Among the soldiers in the shops and passages some men were to be seen in gray coats, with closely shaven heads.
When he reached the bridge he saw two unlimbered guns, the infantry crossing the bridge, several overturned carts, and frightened and laughing faces among the troops.
He was told by his fellow officers that the screams of the crowd and the shrieks of the woman were due to the fact that General Ermolov, coming up to the crowd and learning that soldiers were dispersing among the shops while crowds of civilians blocked the bridge, had ordered two guns to be unlimbered and made a show of firing at the bridge.
Only among the back rows of the people, who were all pressing toward the one spot, could sighs, groans, and the shuffling of feet be heard.
As soon as the men of the various regiments began to disperse among the wealthy and deserted houses, the army was lost forever and there came into being something nondescript, neither citizens nor soldiers but what are known as marauders.
In cellars and storerooms similar men were busy among the provisions, and in the yards unlocking or breaking open coach house and stable doors, lighting fires in kitchens and kneading and baking bread with rolled-up sleeves, and cooking; or frightening, amusing, or caressing women and children.
When, having bought the coat merely with the object of taking part among the people in the defense of Moscow, Pierre had met the Rostovs and Natasha had said to him: Are you remaining in Moscow?...
He walked among the crowd with rapid steps, scanning the various faces he met.
Mention was made in Kutuzov's report of the Russian losses, among which figured the names of Tuchkov, Bagration, and Kutaysov.
Among the men was an Italian prisoner, an officer of the French army; and Nicholas felt that the presence of that prisoner enhanced his own importance as a Russian hero.
Among these was the governor's wife herself, who welcomed Rostov as a near relative and called him "Nicholas."
But, my dear boy, among other things you are too attentive to the other, the blonde.
In this letter the countess also mentioned that Prince Andrew was among the wounded traveling with them; his state was very critical, but the doctor said there was now more hope.
That evening he learned that all these prisoners (he, probably, among them) were to be tried for incendiarism.
Pierre felt himself to be an insignificant chip fallen among the wheels of a machine whose action he did not understand but which was working well.
Then they led him away somewhere, and at last he found himself in a corner of the shed among men who were laughing and talking on all sides.
As a result of the hostility between Kutuzov and Bennigsen, his Chief of Staff, the presence of confidential representatives of the Emperor, and these transfers, a more than usually complicated play of parties was going on among the staff of the army.
The officer was admitted and immediately saw all the chief generals of the army together, and among them Ermolov's big imposing figure.
How could one capture a commander-in-chief from among such a mass of troops!
All this had to be dealt with, the prisoners and guns secured, the booty divided--not without some shouting and even a little fighting among themselves--and it was on this that the Cossacks all busied themselves.
A paternal administration, chosen from among yourselves, will form your municipality or city government.
Among the Old Guard disorder and pillage were renewed more violently than ever yesterday evening, last night, and today.
There were about thirty officers, with Pierre among them, and about three hundred men.
Through the cross streets of the Khamovniki quarter the prisoners marched, followed only by their escort and the vehicles and wagons belonging to that escort, but when they reached the supply stores they came among a huge and closely packed train of artillery mingled with private vehicles.
In three carriages involved among the munition carts, closely squeezed together, sat women with rouged faces, dressed in glaring colors, who were shouting something in shrill voices.
It was not till nearly evening that the officer commanding the escort collected his men and with shouts and quarrels forced his way in among the baggage trains, and the prisoners, hemmed in on all sides, emerged onto the Kaluga road.
Several soldiers ran toward the cart from different sides: some beat the carriage horses on their heads, turning them aside, others fought among themselves, and Pierre saw that one German was badly wounded on the head by a sword.
The Cossacks and peasants who crept in among the French now considered everything possible.
Denisov then relieved him from drudgery and began taking him with him when he went out on expeditions and had him enrolled among the Cossacks.
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.
There was a stir among the officers in the shadow beyond the fire, and one tall, long-necked officer, walking round the fire, came up to Dolokhov.
Among the Russian prisoners rescued by Denisov and Dolokhov was Pierre Bezukhov.
Well, one night the convicts were gathered just as we are, with the old man among them.
A pleasant feeling of excitement and an expectation of something joyful and solemn was aroused among the soldiers of the convoy and the prisoners.
Pierre sobbed as he sat among them and could not utter a word.
The French, excited by all that had happened, were talking loudly among themselves, but as they passed Dolokhov who gently switched his boots with his whip and watched them with cold glassy eyes that boded no good, they became silent.
Kutuzov rode to Dobroe on his plump little white horse, followed by an enormous suite of discontented generals who whispered among themselves behind his back.
As long as they remained with their own people each might hope for help from his fellows and the definite place he held among them.
Then a patrol arrived and all the men--all those who were not looting, that is--were arrested, and I among them.
Among other things he spoke of the Bogucharovo elder.
Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked.
That a criminal was reared among male factors mitigates his fault in our eyes.
She looked at her husband, the most closed minded among us, when she spoke.
We have this pledge among ourselves not getting a Texas mile near any of these cases.
While I had no direct evidence the attendees were all registered sex offenders, the way they nodded and agreed at the mention of deviant sexual behavior made me feel I might be unique among like penitents.
His look was too intense for her to doubt she was among what he'd discovered.
Anyway, among the wacko postings, I found this site.
Pierre was at ease among his own kind.
Her arms were crossed, and though she smiled at Lon, Sofia could see her level of comfort was equal to hers among the giants that towered even above a supermodel.
I'm different, Jule, even among you all.
He'd tucked away the necklace thousands of years ago after finding it among the pieces of his brother's body.
At least one of Damian's Guardians lay slain among the scores of vamps.
He was like a massive shadow among the sunny forest, dressed all in black and armed as if for battle, even when coming to see her.
"Forty three, five here, thirty eight spread among the Sanctuaries," she answered promptly.
It was how he walked easily among all the others, never threatened and routinely confided in.
One would know she didn't belong among the blue bloods in this crowd.
Rhyn stayed where he was, wary yet unafraid of Sasha, who.d been the zookeeper among the animals with him in Hell.
He.s in a deep sleep, but his presence here is causing much unease among us.
So the two went to the dressing-room of the Princess and searched carefully in every corner and among the vases and baskets and ornaments that stood about the pretty boudoir.
They looked down, and at the bottom they saw some lambs huddled together among the rocks.
But this I know, I love to play In the meadow, among the hay-- Up the water, and o'er the lea, That's the way for Billy and me.
He looked eagerly around, but saw only a squirrel frisking among the trees and a rabbit hopping across the road.
It was only a pet calf that had come there to browse among the bushes.
She lay hidden among some rocks, and nothing could make her stir.
And the rest he divided among the young women who took care of his mother.
One day as he was walking among the trees the birds saw him and flew down to greet him.
He was often making trouble among his neighbors.
And of the redheads themselves, are there factors among the clumsy ones that are different than the coordinated ones?
If we obtained this ten-thousand-fold increase simply by allowing specialization and dividing work up among people, then what astronomical gains will we achieve by outsourcing that work to robots capable of working with unimaginable precision at unimaginable speed?
Let that sink in: By dividing work up among people so they could specialize, we went from bows and arrows to Apollo moon missions.
In the past, political alliances were sealed by marriages among monarchs or nobles.
American universities are thought by many to be among the best in the world.
In the days that followed I learned to spell in this uncomprehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, stand and walk.
I do not remember what they all were; but I do know that mother, father, sister, teacher were among them--words that were to make the world blossom for me, "like Aaron's rod, with flowers."
Among the many friends I made in Boston were Mr. William Endicott and his daughter.
Our cottage was a sort of rough camp, beautifully situated on the top of the mountain among oaks and pines.
I am proud to count him among my friends.
Since Bishop Brooks died I have read the Bible through; also some philosophical works on religion, among them Swedenborg's "Heaven and Hell" and Drummond's "Ascent of Man," and I have found no creed or system more soul-satisfying than Bishop Brooks's creed of love.
The doll cried, too, and stretched out its arms from among the green branches, and looked distressed.
Among the dogs which received the most attention were the bulldogs.
Among them are "Henry Esmond," "Bacon's Essays" and extracts from "English Literature."
The manual alphabet is that in use among all educated deaf people.
She seemed to think at first that the children all belonged to the visiting ministers; but soon she recognized some little friends among them, and I told her the ministers didn't bring their children with them.
It was very beautiful; but the idle fairies were too much frightened at the mischief their disobedience had caused, to admire the beauty of the forest, and at once tried to hide themselves among the bushes, lest King Frost should come and punish them.
I do not remember what they all were; but I do know that MOTHER, FATHER, SISTER and TEACHER were among them.
These extracts are from her exercises in her course in composition, where she showed herself at the beginning of her college life quite without rival among her classmates.
The very fact that the nineteenth century has not produced many authors whom the world may count among the greatest of all time does not in my opinion justify the remark, "There may come a time when people cease to write."
Among the rest was a dried tapeworm.
As he was being led up to some object he noticed a hesitation and uncertainty among his conductors.
Nearly two years before this, in 1808, Pierre on returning to Petersburg after visiting his estates had involuntarily found himself in a leading position among the Petersburg Freemasons.
The count got out helped by the footmen, and, passing among men and women who were entering and the program sellers, they all three went along the corridor to the first row of boxes.
Among the innumerable categories applicable to the phenomena of human life one may discriminate between those in which substance prevails and those in which form prevails.
But such undercurrents still existed among the people and gathered new forces ready to manifest themselves just as strangely, unexpectedly, and at the same time simply, naturally, and forcibly.
After the hussars had come to the village and Rostov had gone to see the princess, a certain confusion and dissension had arisen among the crowd.
Standing among the crowd of peasants, Pierre recognized several acquaintances among these notables, but did not look at them--his whole attention was absorbed in watching the serious expression on the faces of the crowd of soldiers and militiamen who were all gazing eagerly at the icon.
Half an hour later Kutuzov left for Tatarinova, and Bennigsen and his suite, with Pierre among them, set out on their ride along the line.
Near by, the campfires were dimly burning among the French Guards, and in the distance those of the Russian line shone through the smoke.
He sent out among the poor people of the city and found two little babies who had never heard a word spoken.
So they hid themselves among the bushes and waited silently for something to happen.
Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, Cuttingsville, Vermont, some trader among the Green Mountains, who imports for the farmers near his clearing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect the price for him, telling his customers this moment, as he has told them twenty times before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of prime quality.
Well, then, come here, said she, and went further in among the plants and threw down the doll.
Yet from among these men twenty thousand are doomed to die, and they wonder at my hat!
Having descended the hill the general after whom Pierre was galloping turned sharply to the left, and Pierre, losing sight of him, galloped in among some ranks of infantry marching ahead of him.
Pierre saw that there was a bridge in front of him and that soldiers were doing something on both sides of it and in the meadow, among the rows of new-mown hay which he had taken no notice of amid the smoke of the campfires the day before; but despite the incessant firing going on there he had no idea that this was the field of battle.
I don't know who among us was the most nervous.
One instance, which had occurred some twenty years before, was a movement among the peasants to emigrate to some unknown "warm rivers."
