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1  He sat down on the deserted seat.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  and he fell on his knees on the pavement, fortunately at that time deserted.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I
3  Here was a deserted fenced-off place where rubbish of different sorts was lying.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
4  But the stairs, too, were quite deserted; all the doors were shut; he met no one.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
5  This boulevard was never much frequented; and now, at two o'clock, in the stifling heat, it was quite deserted.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
6  On the opposite wall near the acute angle stood a small plain wooden chest of drawers looking, as it were, lost in a desert.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV
7  They sat side by side, both mournful and dejected, as though they had been cast up by the tempest alone on some deserted shore.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER IV
8  Raskolnikov came out of the shed on to the river bank, sat down on a heap of logs by the shed and began gazing at the wide deserted river.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII
9  And in the fourth or fifth century she would have walked away into the Egyptian desert and would have stayed there thirty years living on roots and ecstasies and visions.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER IV
10  Zossimov had agreed at once to desert the drinking party to go to Raskolnikov's, but he came reluctantly and with the greatest suspicion to see the ladies, mistrusting Razumihin in his exhilarated condition.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I
11  I should have taken the money and jewels, I should have walked out of there and have gone straight to some deserted place with fences round it and scarcely anyone to be seen, some kitchen garden or place of that sort.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
12  "So my reason has not quite deserted me, so I still have some sense and memory, since I guessed it of myself," he thought triumphantly, with a deep sigh of relief; "it's simply the weakness of fever, a moment's delirium," and he tore the whole lining out of the left pocket of his trousers.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I