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1  A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER V
2  He felt oppressed and stifled and, as it were, ill at ease at having come here.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER III
3  "What folly to trouble myself," he decided suddenly with an oppressive feeling of annoyance.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VI
4  There was a look of poignant discomfort in her face, as though Avdotya Romanovna's courtesy and attention were oppressive and painful to her.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV
5  A sudden anguish oppressed his heart, he stood still in the middle of the street and began looking about to see where he was and which way he was going.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER III
6  From his childhood the thought of death and the presence of death had something oppressive and mysteriously awful; and it was long since he had heard the requiem service.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER I
7  Some of them he liked and tried to clutch at, but they faded and all the while there was an oppression within him, but it was not overwhelming, sometimes it was even pleasant.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI
8  The feeling of intense repulsion, which had begun to oppress and torture his heart while he was on his way to the old woman, had by now reached such a pitch and had taken such a definite form that he did not know what to do with himself to escape from his wretchedness.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I