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1  "Let me be," she cried in despair.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER V
2  But his laughter was quickly followed by despair.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
3  There was a look of poignant agony, of despair, in her face.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII
4  "Nothing would induce me to go," she whispered in despair to Razumihin.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I
5  A strange smile contorted his face, a pitiful, sad, weak smile, a smile of despair.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER V
6  Sonia said this as though in despair, wringing her hands in excitement and distress.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV
7  He got up again as though he meant to go away, but sat down again in evident despair.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER II
8  "Oh, I don't know," cried Sonia, almost in despair, and she put her hands to her head.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV
9  This conjecture had begun to grow strong the day before, in the midst of all his alarm and despair.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V
10  But he was possessed by such despair, such cynicism of misery, if one may so call it, that with a wave of his hand he went on.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
11  Then she is wringing her hands, spitting blood, weeping, and all at once she will begin knocking her head against the wall, in despair.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV
12  Your article is absurd and fantastic, but there's a transparent sincerity, a youthful incorruptible pride and the daring of despair in it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER II
13  She too joined in the singing, but broke down at the second note with a fearful cough, which made her curse in despair and even shed tears.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER V
14  Timidly and noiselessly a young girl made her way through the crowd, and strange was her appearance in that room, in the midst of want, rags, death and despair.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII
15  Raskolnikov was so exhausted by what he had passed through that month that he could only decide such questions in one way; "then I shall kill him," he thought in cold despair.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER III
16  He read it all in her face; so she must have had that thought already, perhaps many times, and earnestly she had thought out in her despair how to end it and so earnestly, that now she scarcely wondered at his suggestion.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV
17  And she had destroyed herself, crushed by an insult that had appalled and amazed that childish soul, had smirched that angel purity with unmerited disgrace and torn from her a last scream of despair, unheeded and brutally disregarded, on a dark night in the cold and wet while the wind howled.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VI
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