| 1 | Pierre gave orders that he should be followed with a horse, and walked along the street to the knoll from which he had viewed the field of battle the day before. | |
| 2 | The Jade Flowery Islet used to be an earthen hillock in the lake and later the man-made rockeries piled up on it are the water-eroded rocks from the Lake Tai. | |
| 3 | The Russians stood in serried ranks behind Semyonovskoye and the redoubt, and their guns kept up an incessant roar and smoke all along their lines. | |
| 4 | PIERRE got out of his carriage, and passing by the toiling peasants, clambered up the knoll from which the doctor had told him he could get a view of the field of battle. | |
| 5 | Pierre pointed to another mound in the distance, with a big tree on it, near a village that could be seen in a gap between the hills, where there was a dark patch and the smoke of campfires . |