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Sentences starting with moscow

Moscow seen from the Poklonny Hill lay spaciously spread out with her river, her gardens, and her churches, and she seemed to be living her usual life, her cupolas glittering like stars in the sunlight. [2]
Moscow was set on fire by the soldiers' pipes, kitchens, and campfires, and by the carelessness of enemy soldiers occupying houses they did not own. [2]
Moscow was on fire in several places. [2]
Moscow when occupied by the enemy did not remain intact like Berlin, Vienna, and other towns, simply because its inhabitants abandoned it and did not welcome the French with bread and salt, nor bring them the keys of the city. [2]
Moscow was burned by its inhabitants, it is true, but by those who had abandoned it and not by those who remained in it. [2]
Moscow is chiefly busy with gossip," he continued. [2]
Moscow was burned because it found itself in a position in which any town built of wood was bound to burn, quite apart from whether it had, or had not, a hundred and thirty inferior fire engines. [2]
Moscow is taken and after that, with no further battles, it is not Russia that ceases to exist, but the French army of six hundred thousand, and then Napoleonic France itself. [2]
Moscow must be abandoned. [2]

Sentences ending with moscow

He did not wish to stay another day in Moscow. [2]
They want the whole nation to fall on them--in a word, it's Moscow! [2]
A third officer, who by his accent was a Pole, disputed with the commissariat officer, arguing that he was mistaken in his identification of the different wards of Moscow. [2]
You ask whether we shall spend next winter in Moscow. [2]
Pierre offered the use of his carriage, which had overtaken him, to a wounded general he knew, and drove with him to Moscow. [2]
Will they set us down here or take us on to Moscow? [2]
He got Petya transferred from Obolenski's regiment to Bezukhov's, which was in training near Moscow. [2]
They have gone to your estate near Moscow. [2]
It was unpleasant to Prince Andrew to meet people of his own set in general, and Pierre especially, for he reminded him of all the painful moments of his last visit to Moscow. [2]
A further proof to Pierre of his own more settled outlook on practical matters was furnished by his decision with regard to his wife's debts and to the rebuilding of his houses in and near Moscow. [2]

Short sentences using moscow

That Napoleon has left Moscow? [2]
In Moscow, I know. [2]
He had had his Moscow. [11]
Set off immediately for Moscow. [2]
A regular Moscow! [2]

Sentences containing moscow two or more times

Is it better to give up Moscow without a battle, or by accepting battle to risk losing the army as well as Moscow? [2]
The first Russians to enter Moscow were the Cossacks of Wintzingerode's detachment, peasants from the adjacent villages, and residents who had fled from Moscow and had been hiding in its vicinity. [2]
He had nothing to do in Moscow, but he had noticed that everyone in the army was asking for leave to visit Moscow and had something to do there. [2]
And a consciousness of this, and a foreboding that Moscow would be taken, was present in Russian Moscow society in 1812. [2]
Before the end of the fast of St. Peter, Agrafena Ivanovna Belova, a country neighbor of the Rostovs, came to Moscow to pay her devotions at the shrines of the Moscow saints. [2]
After the battle of Borodino the abandonment and burning of Moscow was as inevitable as the retreat of the army beyond Moscow without fighting. [2]
Since the twenty-ninth of August I have received no communication from you, yet on the first of September I received from the commander in chief of Moscow, via Yaroslavl, the sad news that you, with the army, have decided to abandon Moscow. [2]
Michaud, who had never seen Moscow before the campaign and who did not know Russian, yet felt deeply moved (as he wrote) when he appeared before notre tres gracieux souverain * with the news of the burning of Moscow, dont les flammes eclairaient sa route. [2]
Since their marriage Natasha and her husband had lived in Moscow, in Petersburg, on their estate near Moscow, or with her mother, that is to say, in Nicholas' house. [2]
Prince Andrew was expected in Moscow any day, the trousseau had to be ordered and the estate near Moscow had to be sold, besides which the opportunity of presenting his future daughter-in-law to old Prince Bolkonski while he was in Moscow could not be missed. [2]

More example sentences with the word moscow in them

Call it what you please, I know that what happened to you in Moscow was a misfortune. [2]
Though tattered, hungry, worn out, and reduced to a third of their original number, the French entered Moscow in good marching order. [2]
Count Ilya Rostov with the other members of the committee sat facing Bagration and, as the very personification of Moscow hospitality, did the honors to the prince. [2]
The officers gazed with surprise at Pierre's huge stout figure and listened to his talk of Moscow and the position of our army, round which he had ridden. [2]
Forty eight guns with ammunition have been sent him from here, and his Serene Highness says he will defend Moscow to the last drop of blood and is even ready to fight in the streets. [2]
After Kaysarov, others whom Pierre knew came up to him, and he had not time to reply to all the questions about Moscow that were showered upon him, or to listen to all that was told him. [2]
Just then Julie, who by the death of her brothers had become one of the richest heiresses in Moscow, was in the full whirl of society pleasures. [2]
In the morning, when he went to call at Rostopchin's he met there a courier fresh from the army, an acquaintance of his own, who often danced at Moscow balls. [2]
More than once when Anatole's regiment was stationed at Tver he had taken him from Tver in the evening, brought him to Moscow by daybreak, and driven him back again the next night. [2]
We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them. [2]
In Petersburg they were provincials, and the very people they had entertained in Moscow without inquiring to what set they belonged, here looked down on them. [2]
Anatole consented and went to Moscow, where he put up at Pierre's house. [2]
The genuine as well as the false paper money which flooded Moscow lost its value. [2]
The main army was on the other side of Moscow or beyond it. [2]
Moreover, Prince Andrew was expected in Moscow, where old Prince Bolkonski was spending the winter, and Natasha felt sure he had already arrived. [2]
On what, then, was Count Rostopchin's fear for the tranquillity of Moscow based in 1812? [2]
From Moscow to Vyazma the French army of seventy-three thousand men not reckoning the Guards (who did nothing during the whole war but pillage) was reduced to thirty-six thousand, though not more than five thousand had fallen in battle. [2]
And by this visit of the Emperor to Moscow the strength of the Russian army was trebled. [2]
Besides the plunderers, very various people, some drawn by curiosity, some by official duties, some by self-interest--house owners, clergy, officials of all kinds, tradesmen, artisans, and peasants--streamed into Moscow as blood flows to the heart. [2]
He was in very good spirits; the affair with the purchaser was going on satisfactorily, and there was nothing to keep him any longer in Moscow, away from the countess whom he missed. [2]
What is the use of that, when a third of their army has melted away on the road from Moscow to Vyazma without any battle? [2]
When he woke up on the morning after his return to Moscow and his interview with Count Rostopchin, he could not for some time make out where he was and what was expected of him. [2]
Though by the twentieth of August nearly all the Rostovs' acquaintances had left Moscow, and though everybody tried to persuade the countess to get away as quickly as possible, she would not hear of leaving before her treasure, her adored Petya, returned. [2]
But the baggage trains stretched out so that the last of Beauharnais' train had not yet got out of Moscow and reached the Kaluga road when the vanguard of Ney's army was already emerging from the Great Ordynka Street. [2]
The burning of towns and villages, the retreats after battles, the blow dealt at Borodino and the renewed retreat, the burning of Moscow, the capture of marauders, the seizure of transports, and the guerrilla war were all departures from the rules. [2]
The secretary was told to write down the resolution of the Moscow nobility and gentry, that they would furnish ten men, fully equipped, out of every thousand serfs, as the Smolensk gentry had done. [2]
She is going to their estate near Moscow either today or tomorrow morning, with her nephew. [2]
Those who were to remain in Moscow walked on either side of the vehicles seeing the travelers off. [2]
When he returned to Moscow Pierre was handed a letter from Marya Dmitrievna asking him to come and see her on a matter of great importance relating to Andrew Bolkonski and his betrothed. [2]
When he returned to Moscow his father dismissed the abbe and said to the young man, "Now go to Petersburg, look round, and choose your profession. [2]
Willarski was going to Moscow and they agreed to travel together. [2]
Julie was preparing to leave Moscow next day and was giving a farewell soiree. [2]
The count wanted to leave long ago, but the countess won't on any account leave Moscow till her son returns. [2]
Without replying either to his wife or his mother-in-law, Pierre late one night prepared for a journey and started for Moscow to see Joseph Alexeevich. [2]
She invited Nicholas to come to Moscow. [2]
The Razumovskis wanted to buy his house and his estate near Moscow, but it drags on and on. [2]
Deserted Moscow had to burn as inevitably as a heap of shavings has to burn on which sparks continually fall for several days. [2]
For a long time he could not reconcile himself to the idea that he was one of those same retired Moscow gentlemen-in-waiting he had so despised seven years before. [2]
From the twenty-eighth till the thirty-first all Moscow was in a bustle and commotion. [2]
From that time till the end of the destruction of Moscow no one of Bezukhov's household, despite all the search they made, saw Pierre again or knew where he was. [2]
More than ten thousand people were still in Moscow on the first and second of September, and except for a mob in the governor's courtyard, assembled there at his bidding, nothing happened. [2]
And why do they stay on so long in Moscow? [2]
By the time they reached Bogucharovo, Dessalles and the little prince had already left for Moscow. [2]
One motive only they all had in common: a desire to get to the place that had been called Moscow, to apply their activities there. [2]
Having learned that there were many charitable institutions in Moscow he mentally decided that he would shower favors on them all. [2]
He did not then realize the significance of the burning of Moscow, and looked at the fires with horror. [2]
But he liked them; liked that mad driving at twelve miles an hour, liked upsetting a driver or running down a pedestrian, and flying at full gallop through the Moscow streets. [2]
On the twenty-fourth the weather cleared up after a spell of rain, and after dinner Pierre left Moscow. [2]
We must punish the villain who has caused the ruin of Moscow. [2]
Fleeing from Moscow the soldiers took with them everything they had stolen. [2]
In the autumn the Rostovs returned to Moscow. [2]
Though in Moscow the Rostovs belonged to the best society without themselves giving it a thought, yet in Petersburg their circle of acquaintances was a mixed and indefinite one. [2]
The events of the previous year: the burning of Moscow and the flight from it, the death of Prince Andrew, Natasha's despair, Petya's death, and the old countess' grief fell blow after blow on the old count's head. [2]
Petya was in the porch, engaged in giving out weapons to the servants who were to leave Moscow. [2]
In that circle the Moscow enthusiasm--news of which had reached Petersburg simultaneously with the Emperor's return--was ridiculed sarcastically and very cleverly, though with much caution. [2]
By impetus gained, the French army was still able to roll forward to Moscow, but there, without further effort on the part of the Russians, it had to perish, bleeding from the mortal wound it had received at Borodino. [2]
The French attributed the Fire of Moscow au patriotisme feroce de Rostopchine, * the Russians to the barbarity of the French. [2]
His passion for the Emperor had cooled somewhat in Moscow. [2]
The other, from the countess, described their last days in Moscow, their departure, the fire, and the destruction of all their property. [2]
This letter requested the count to send police officers to guide the troops through the town, as the army was retreating to the Ryazan road beyond Moscow. [2]
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?... [2]
And Moscow engulfed the army ever deeper and deeper. [2]
She went through the accounts with Alpatych, conferred with Dessalles about her nephew, and gave orders and made preparations for the journey to Moscow. [2]
The same thing that took place in Moscow had happened in all the towns and villages on Russian soil beginning with Smolensk, without the participation of Count Rostopchin and his broadsheets. [2]
The prisoner said that the troops that had entered Forminsk that day were the vanguard of the whole army, that Napoleon was there and the whole army had left Moscow four days previously. [2]
And Pierre decided that the steward's proposals which had so pleased him were wrong and that he must go to Petersburg and settle his wife's affairs and must rebuild in Moscow. [2]
The first declared that the report that Count Rostopchin had forbidden people to leave Moscow was false; on the contrary he was glad that ladies and tradesmen's wives were leaving the city. [2]
He alone said that the loss of Moscow is not the loss of Russia. [2]
It was said that Rostopchin had expelled all Frenchmen and even all foreigners from Moscow, and that there had been some spies and agents of Napoleon among them; but this was told chiefly to introduce Rostopchin's witty remark on that occasion. [2]
Is it true that Moscow is called 'Holy Moscow'? [2]
It was not that Moscow had been taken or that the happy conquerors were masters in it and were patronizing him. [2]
He told Kutuzov that he had come because Moscow, the capital, was no more and only the army remained. [2]
The bustle and terror of the Rostovs' last days in Moscow stifled the gloomy thoughts that oppressed Sonya. [2]
Valuev was confidentially telling that Uvarov had been sent from Petersburg to ascertain what Moscow was thinking about Austerlitz. [2]
He was enormously tall, handsome, amiable as Frenchmen are, and was, as all Moscow said, an extraordinarily clever doctor. [2]
Distressed, offended, and surprised by all this, Rostopchin had returned to Moscow. [2]
With regard to supplies for the army, Napoleon decreed that all the troops in turn should enter Moscow a la maraude * to obtain provisions for themselves, so that the army might have its future provided for. [2]
It was last Sunday they took me, out of a hospital in Moscow. [2]
This spite increased still more when, on calling over the roll of prisoners, it was found that in the bustle of leaving Moscow one Russian soldier, who had pretended to suffer from colic, had escaped. [2]
Suddenly Prince Hippolyte started up making signs to everyone to attend, and asking them all to be seated began: "I was told a charming Moscow story today and must treat you to it. [2]
The Rostov party spent the night at Mytishchi, fourteen miles from Moscow. [2]
The first to speak was General Armfeldt who, to meet the difficulty that presented itself, unexpectedly proposed a perfectly new position away from the Petersburg and Moscow roads. [2]
After Smolensk Napoleon sought a battle beyond Dorogobuzh at Vyazma, and then at Tsarevo-Zaymishche, but it happened that owing to a conjunction of innumerable circumstances the Russians could not give battle till they reached Borodino, seventy miles from Moscow. [2]
To study the skillful tactics and aims of Napoleon and his army from the time it entered Moscow till it was destroyed is like studying the dying leaps and shudders of a mortally wounded animal. [2]
The facts clearly show that Napoleon did not foresee the danger of the advance on Moscow, nor did Alexander and the Russian commanders then think of luring Napoleon on, but quite the contrary. [2]
Pierre felt that she was right, and to avoid compromising her went away to Moscow. [2]
There in Moscow she was deprived of her greatest pleasures--talks with the pilgrims and the solitude which refreshed her at Bald Hills--and she had none of the advantages and pleasures of city life. [2]
At other times she praised Julie to him and advised him to go to Moscow during the holidays to amuse himself. [2]
Julie, with whom she had corresponded for the last five years, was in Moscow, but proved to be quite alien to her when they met. [2]
This brilliant company separated into several groups who all discussed the advantages and disadvantages of the position, the state of the army, the plans suggested, the situation of Moscow, and military questions generally. [2]
No flames were seen, but columns of smoke rose on all sides, and all Moscow as far as Pierre could see was one vast charred ruin. [2]
And strange to say, the Governor of Moscow, the proud Count Rostopchin, took up a Cossack whip and went to the bridge where he began with shouts to drive on the carts that blocked the way. [2]
The Russians, they say, fortified this position in advance on the left of the highroad (from Moscow to Smolensk) and almost at a right angle to it, from Borodino to Utitsa, at the very place where the battle was fought. [2]
So in the same way Moscow was empty when Napoleon, weary, uneasy, and morose, paced up and down in front of the Kammer-Kollezski rampart, awaiting what to his mind was a necessary, if but formal, observance of the proprieties--a deputation. [2]
If it is said that he expected to end the campaign by occupying Moscow as he had ended a previous campaign by occupying Vienna, there is much evidence to the contrary. [2]
Let it be said of each of you: "He was in the great battle before Moscow! [2]
The princess looked round and saw Natasha coming in, almost running--that Natasha whom she had liked so little at their meeting in Moscow long since. [2]
On Friday the Rostovs were to return to the country, but on Wednesday the count went with the prospective purchaser to his estate near Moscow. [2]
Soon after the Rostovs came to Moscow the effect Natasha had on him made him hasten to carry out his intention. [2]
Next day Count Rostov returned from his estate near Moscow in time for lunch as he had promised. [2]

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