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1  You have fainting on the brain.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III
2  His heart was beating violently, and his brain was in a turmoil.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
3  I advise you to see a doctor for your brains and your short sight.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER III
4  At last I shook my fist in his ugly face, and told him as a cousin I'd brain him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II
5  A strange idea was pecking at his brain like a chicken in the egg, and very, very much absorbed him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
6  They say that in consumption the tubercles sometimes occur in the brain; it's a pity I know nothing of medicine.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER V
7  But why had he happened to hear such a discussion and such ideas at the very moment when his own brain was just conceiving.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
8  In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
9  Raskolnikov had unwittingly worked a revolution in his brain on a certain point and had made up his mind for him conclusively.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
10  It would be difficult to explain exactly what could have originated the idea of that senseless dinner in Katerina Ivanovna's disordered brain.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER II
11  Scraps and shreds of thoughts were simply swarming in his brain, but he could not catch at one, he could not rest on one, in spite of all his efforts.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
12  All this passed vaguely and fleetingly through his brain, but looking at her more intently, he saw that the humiliated creature was so humiliated that he felt suddenly sorry for her.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV
13  "yes, that's true," he continued, pursuing the whirling ideas that chased each other in his brain, "it is true that 'it needs time and care to get to know a man,' but there is no mistake about Mr. Luzhin."
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
14  But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, irrelevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to prevaricate, to lie--no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I