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1  One can be poor and honourable, I muttered.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IX
2  I knew, too, that it was very poor to think so.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: III
3  "To my thinking it's very poor," Trudolyubov observed gravely.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IV
4  During his last year at school he came in for an estate of two hundred serfs, and as almost all of us were poor he took up a swaggering tone among us.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: III
5  I will not accept as the crown of my desires a block of buildings with tenements for the poor on a lease of a thousand years, and perhaps with a sign-board of a dentist hanging out.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: X
6  from there altogether, she began, to break the silence in some way, but, poor girl, that was just what she ought not to have spoken about at such a stupid moment to a man so stupid as I was.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: IX
7  The poor girl was keeping that student's letter as a precious treasure, and had run to fetch it, her only treasure, because she did not want me to go away without knowing that she, too, was honestly and genuinely loved; that she, too, was addressed respectfully.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: VII