1 The same bell, the same cracked note.
2 The woman went on cracking nuts and laughing.
3 "They've gone to bed next door," he thought, not seeing the light at the crack.
4 Suddenly he heard a momentary sharp crack like the snapping of a splinter and all was still again.
5 The door was as before opened a tiny crack, and again two sharp and suspicious eyes stared at him out of the darkness.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 6 She set before him her own cracked teapot full of weak and stale tea and laid two yellow lumps of sugar by the side of it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 7 She was dressed in red cotton, in a pointed, beaded headdress and thick leather shoes; she was cracking nuts and laughing.
8 In a strong and rather agreeable voice, cracked and coarsened by street singing, she sang in hope of getting a copper from the shop.
9 In a little while, the door was opened a tiny crack: the old woman eyed her visitor with evident distrust through the crack, and nothing could be seen but her little eyes, glittering in the darkness.
10 Then in senseless terror he rushed to the corner, to that hole under the paper where he had put the things; put his hand in, and for some minutes felt carefully in the hole, in every crack and fold of the paper.
11 Then he would be alone in the room; they had all gone away afraid of him, and only now and then opened the door a crack to look at him; they threatened him, plotted something together, laughed, and mocked at him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER III 12 At that moment a whole party of revellers already drunk came in from the street, and the sounds of a hired concertina and the cracked piping voice of a child of seven singing "The Hamlet" were heard in the entry.
13 A few minutes afterwards the woman went to the cowshed, and through a crack in the wall she saw in the stable adjoining he had made a noose of his sash from the beam, stood on a block of wood, and was trying to put his neck in the noose.
14 The ladies slowly followed Razumihin, who went on before, and when they reached the landlady's door on the fourth storey, they noticed that her door was a tiny crack open and that two keen black eyes were watching them from the darkness within.
15 As he was reaching the steps of Bakaleyev's, he suddenly fancied that something, a chain, a stud or even a bit of paper in which they had been wrapped with the old woman's handwriting on it, might somehow have slipped out and been lost in some crack, and then might suddenly turn up as unexpected, conclusive evidence against him.