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1  See how her dress has been torn too.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  She was wearing a dress of thin dark stuff and she had a white transparent scarf round her neck.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II
3  In that quarter of the town, however, scarcely any shortcoming in dress would have created surprise.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
4  He tried to pull it out from the front of the dress, but something held it and prevented its coming.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
5  She was wearing a very plain indoor dress, and had on a shabby old-fashioned hat, but she still carried a parasol.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV
6  Her light blue dress trimmed with white lace floated about the table like an air-balloon and filled almost half the room.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
7  She soon recovered consciousness, raised her head, sat up and began sneezing and coughing, stupidly wiping her wet dress with her hands.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
8  He had seen her yesterday for the first time, but at such a moment, in such surroundings and in such a dress, that his memory retained a very different image of her.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV
9  At the top, under a white sheet, was a coat of red brocade lined with hareskin; under it was a silk dress, then a shawl and it seemed as though there was nothing below but clothes.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
10  A fashion book is a lot of pictures, coloured, and they come to the tailors here every Saturday, by post from abroad, to show folks how to dress, the male sex as well as the female.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
11  He was wearing an old and hopelessly ragged black dress coat, with all its buttons missing except one, and that one he had buttoned, evidently clinging to this last trace of respectability.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
12  Look at the way her dress is torn, and the way it has been put on: she has been dressed by somebody, she has not dressed herself, and dressed by unpractised hands, by a man's hands; that's evident.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
13  She had on a dress of some light silky material, but put on strangely awry, not properly hooked up, and torn open at the top of the skirt, close to the waist: a great piece was rent and hanging loose.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
14  From his dress and appearance they might well have taken him for a beggar asking alms in the streets, and the gift of the twenty copecks he doubtless owed to the blow, which made them feel sorry for him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
15  Besides, it's getting late--good heavens, it's past ten, she cried looking at a splendid gold enamelled watch which hung round her neck on a thin Venetian chain, and looked entirely out of keeping with the rest of her dress.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II
16  And the whole of that heavenly day of my life and the whole of that evening I passed in fleeting dreams of how I would arrange it all, and how I would dress all the children, and how I should give her rest, and how I should rescue my own daughter from dishonour and restore her to the bosom of her family.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
17  She forgot her fourth-hand, gaudy silk dress, so unseemly here with its ridiculous long train, and her immense crinoline that filled up the whole doorway, and her light-coloured shoes, and the parasol she brought with her, though it was no use at night, and the absurd round straw hat with its flaring flame-coloured feather.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII
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