1 You saw Zossimov went away just now to avoid irritating me.
2 He spoke to her looking away, as though to avoid meeting her eyes.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 3 He had successfully avoided meeting his landlady on the staircase.
4 He was not exactly ill at ease, but seemed hurried, and avoided her eyes.
5 He walked along quietly and sedately, without hurry, to avoid awakening suspicion.
6 But for the rest of the time she seemed to avoid looking at him or speaking to him.
7 Then, too, that you wanted to avoid thanks and that, as the saying is, your right hand should not know.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 5: CHAPTER III 8 He did not go on to the bridge, but stood aside on the pavement, doing all he could to avoid Raskolnikov's seeing him.
9 Raskolnikov was not used to crowds, and, as we said before, he avoided society of every sort, more especially of late.
10 He only ate from politeness, just tasting the food that Katerina Ivanovna was continually putting on his plate, to avoid hurting her feelings.
11 and that no doubt the presence of his family would have a favourable effect on his recovery and distract his mind, "if only all fresh shocks can be avoided," he added significantly.
12 Moreover, in order to understand any man one must be deliberate and careful to avoid forming prejudices and mistaken ideas, which are very difficult to correct and get over afterwards.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 13 It was evident that the carriage belonged to a rich and important person who was awaiting it somewhere; the police, of course, were in no little anxiety to avoid upsetting his arrangements.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII 14 Without glancing at anyone, and not even nodding to Zossimov, who had for some time been making signs to him to let the sick man alone, he went out, lifting his hat to the level of his shoulders to avoid crushing it as he stooped to go out of the door.
15 Now that one can talk to you, I should like to impress upon you that it is essential to avoid the elementary, so to speak, fundamental causes tending to produce your morbid condition: in that case you will be cured, if not, it will go from bad to worse.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III 16 All our acquaintances avoided us, nobody even bowed to us in the street, and I learnt that some shopmen and clerks were intending to insult us in a shameful way, smearing the gates of our house with pitch, so that the landlord began to tell us we must leave.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 17 If a man is ever so little developed and experienced, he will certainly try to admit all the external facts that can't be avoided, but will seek other explanations of them, will introduce some special, unexpected turn, that will give them another significance and put them in another light.
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