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1  She could not control herself and began crying bitterly.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER IV
2  "I am going, but one last word," he said, quite unable to control himself.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II
3  The corners of her mouth quivered, as though she were trying to control them.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VI
4  She stopped and looked up quickly at him, but controlling herself went on reading.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV
5  She mastered herself, controlled the spasm in her throat and went on reading the eleventh chapter of St. John.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV
6  All at once her lips and chin began trembling, but, with an effort, she controlled herself, looking down again.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV
7  To my thinking it is their duty to be controlled, because that's their vocation, and there is nothing humiliating in it for them.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V
8  The boy in the corner losing all control began trembling and screaming and rushed to his sister in violent terror, almost in a fit.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
9  Katerina Ivanovna could not restrain herself and laughed so much that Amalia Ivanovna lost patience and could scarcely control herself.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER II
10  The first category, generally speaking, are men conservative in temperament and law-abiding; they live under control and love to be controlled.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V
11  The first category, generally speaking, are men conservative in temperament and law-abiding; they live under control and love to be controlled.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V
12  But at the same time he marvelled at the power of controlling himself and hiding his feelings in a patient who the previous day had, like a monomaniac, fallen into a frenzy at the slightest word.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III
13  The fact was that up to the last moment he had never expected such an ending; he had been overbearing to the last degree, never dreaming that two destitute and defenceless women could escape from his control.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III
14  But at last he lost all control and had the face to make Dounia an open and shameful proposal, promising her all sorts of inducements and offering, besides, to throw up everything and take her to another estate of his, or even abroad.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
15  His indignation was such that he ceased trembling at once; he made ready to go in with a cold and arrogant bearing and vowed to himself to keep as silent as possible, to watch and listen and for once at least to control his overstrained nerves.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V
16  But he had no sooner succeeded in assuming a serious air and muttering something when he suddenly glanced again as though accidentally at Razumihin, and could no longer control himself: his stifled laughter broke out the more irresistibly the more he tried to restrain it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V