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1  He forced him to take the glass.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V
2  Zossimov forced himself to laugh.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER III
3  A policeman was indeed forcing his way through the crowd.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER V
4  At that moment Polenka forced her way through the crowd at the door.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII
5  she forced herself at last to read, but at the third word her voice broke like an overstrained string.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV
6  Then he struggled to get up, would have run away, but someone always prevented him by force, and he sank back into impotence and forgetfulness.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
7  If he had cared to think a little, he would have been amazed indeed that he could have talked to them like that a minute before, forcing his feelings upon them.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
8  She sank back on her haunches, but lurched forward and tugged forward with all her force, tugged first on one side and then on the other, trying to move the cart.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
9  Intensely unpleasant as it was, he was forced little by little to accept as a fact beyond recall what had seemed to him only the day before fantastic and incredible.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER I
10  The story of your sister had been wrung out to the last drop; for the last three days Marfa Petrovna had been forced to sit at home; she had nothing to show herself with in the town.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER I
11  But in the last resort he simply ceased to believe in himself, and doggedly, slavishly sought arguments in all directions, fumbling for them, as though someone were forcing and drawing him to it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
12  He was overcome with frenzy and he began hitting the old woman on the head with all his force, but at every blow of the axe the laughter and whispering from the bedroom grew louder and the old woman was simply shaking with mirth.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI
13  But if such a one is forced for the sake of his idea to step over a corpse or wade through blood, he can, I maintain, find within himself, in his conscience, a sanction for wading through blood--that depends on the idea and its dimensions, note that.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V
14  I flattered her shamelessly, and as soon as I succeeded in getting a pressure of the hand, even a glance from her, I would reproach myself for having snatched it by force, and would declare that she had resisted, so that I could never have gained anything but for my being so unprincipled.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER IV
15  But to be stopped on the stairs, to be forced to listen to her trivial, irrelevant gossip, to pestering demands for payment, threats and complaints, and to rack his brains for excuses, to prevaricate, to lie--no, rather than that, he would creep down the stairs like a cat and slip out unseen.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
16  The latter forced himself to laugh, too, but when Porfiry, seeing that he was laughing, broke into such a guffaw that he turned almost crimson, Raskolnikov's repulsion overcame all precaution; he left off laughing, scowled and stared with hatred at Porfiry, keeping his eyes fixed on him while his intentionally prolonged laughter lasted.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V
17  "Since then, sir," he went on after a brief pause--"Since then, owing to an unfortunate occurrence and through information given by evil-intentioned persons--in all which Darya Frantsovna took a leading part on the pretext that she had been treated with want of respect--since then my daughter Sofya Semyonovna has been forced to take a yellow ticket, and owing to that she is unable to go on living with us.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
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