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1  For some minutes we were silent.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IX
2  For one minute every one was silent.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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3  "A nasty day to be buried," I began, simply to avoid being silent.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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4  I remained angrily and contemptuously silent and would not answer him.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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5  They would abandon Zverkov, he would sit on one side, silent and ashamed, while I should crush him.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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6  "Stay," I cried, in a frenzy, as he was slowly and silently turning, with one hand behind his back, to go to his room.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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7  I purposed to say nothing to him about it, and was purposely silent indeed, in order to score off his pride and force him to be the first to speak of his wages.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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8  "If you have any order to give me it's my duty to carry it out," he answered, after another silent pause, with a slow, measured lisp, raising his eyebrows and calmly twisting his head from one side to another, all this with exasperating composure.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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9  I was sent to the school by distant relations, upon whom I was dependent and of whom I have heard nothing since--they sent me there a forlorn, silent boy, already crushed by their reproaches, already troubled by doubt, and looking with savage distrust at everyone.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
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