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1  "No need to be nervous," the latter blurted out.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V
2  Both ladies were waiting for him with nervous impatience.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II
3  His hands shook with nervous impatience as he turned the sheets.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
4  His nervous shudder had passed into a fever that made him feel shivering; in spite of the heat he felt cold.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
5  Pulcheria Alexandrovna's illness was a strange nervous one and was accompanied by a partial derangement of her intellect.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII
6  Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
7  Knowing his nervous temperament and from the first glance seeing through him, Porfiry, though playing a bold game, was bound to win.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER VI
8  Yes, he remembered that he began laughing a thin, nervous noiseless laugh, and went on laughing all the time he was crossing the square.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
9  With a sinking heart and a nervous tremor, he went up to a huge house which on one side looked on to the canal, and on the other into the street.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
10  She was pacing up and down in her little room, pressing her hands against her chest; her lips were parched and her breathing came in nervous broken gasps.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
11  Some nervous nonsense, the result of bad feeding, he says you have not had enough beer and radish, but it's nothing much, it will pass and you will be all right.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
12  Even the poorest and most broken-spirited people are sometimes liable to these paroxysms of pride and vanity which take the form of an irresistible nervous craving.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER II
13  Raskolnikov's set and earnest face was suddenly transformed, and he suddenly went off into the same nervous laugh as before, as though utterly unable to restrain himself.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
14  Add to that, nervous irritability from hunger, from lodging in a hole, from rags, from a vivid sense of the charm of his social position and his sister's and mother's position too.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER V
15  You are a feeble, nervous wretch, and a mass of whims, you're getting fat and lazy and can't deny yourself anything--and I call that dirty because it leads one straight into the dirt.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I
16  He had got completely away from everyone, like a tortoise in its shell, and even the sight of a servant girl who had to wait upon him and looked sometimes into his room made him writhe with nervous irritation.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
17  The wrinkles on his forehead were smoothed out, his eyes contracted, his features broadened and he suddenly went off into a nervous prolonged laugh, shaking all over and looking Raskolnikov straight in the face.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V
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