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1  They were all looking at him in perplexity.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III
2  The porter looked at Raskolnikov, frowning and perplexed.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
3  He found himself confronted with many new and unlooked-for perplexities.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II
4  Dounia gazed gravely and intently into the poor girl's face, and scrutinised her with perplexity.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV
5  Raskolnikov drew back on the sofa as Porfiry bent over him and stared in silent perplexity at him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V
6  Raskolnikov did not sit down, but he felt unwilling to leave her, and stood facing her in perplexity.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
7  Suddenly he stopped; a new utterly unexpected and exceedingly simple question perplexed and bitterly confounded him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
8  Raskolnikov muttered in reply, but with such a preoccupied and inattentive air that Dounia gazed at him in perplexity.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III
9  Polenka was in her everyday dress; she looked in timid perplexity at her mother, and kept at her side, hiding her tears.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER V
10  He vividly recalled those old doubts and perplexities, and it seemed to him that it was no mere chance that he recalled them now.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
11  Both of them had heard of the quarrel from Nastasya, so far as she had succeeded in understanding and reporting it, and were in painful perplexity and suspense.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I
12  A minute later Lebeziatnikov, too, appeared in the doorway; he did not come in, but stood still, listening with marked interest, almost wonder, and seemed for a time perplexed.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER III