1 Her breath literally failed her.
2 His strength was failing him again.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 3 His voice failed him, and he broke off.
4 Her hands were shaking, her voice failed her.
5 Marmeladov stopped short, as though his voice had failed him.
6 Raskolnikov started so that Porfiry Petrovitch could not fail to perceive it.
7 "I decided to ask you, Rodya, to urge you not to fail to be with us at this interview," said Dounia.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III 8 Pulcheria Alexandrovna meant to greet Sonia, too; but it somehow failed to come off, and she went in a flutter out of the room.
9 He had something progressive to say on the subject which might console his worthy friend and "could not fail" to promote his development.
10 I only learned that the marriage, which only failed to take place through the girl's death, was not at all to Praskovya Pavlovna's liking.
11 The conviction that all his faculties, even memory, and the simplest power of reflection were failing him, began to be an insufferable torture.
12 The consequences of this fact were clear to him at once, its falsehood could not fail to be discovered, and then they would be after him again.
13 Any shock, any irritating sensation stimulated and revived his energies at once, but his strength failed as quickly when the stimulus was removed.
14 In speaking of it to Dounia, he had let out the secret feeling he cherished and admired, and he could not understand that others should fail to admire it too.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 4: CHAPTER III 15 When we quarrelled, I usually held my tongue and did not irritate her and that gentlemanly conduct rarely failed to attain its object, it influenced her, it pleased her, indeed.
16 Then a strange idea entered his head; that, perhaps, all his clothes were covered with blood, that, perhaps, there were a great many stains, but that he did not see them, did not notice them because his perceptions were failing, were going to pieces.
17 Among those who failed to appear were "the genteel lady and her old-maidish daughter," who had only been lodgers in the house for the last fortnight, but had several times complained of the noise and uproar in Katerina Ivanovna's room, especially when Marmeladov had come back drunk.
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