1 I can't explain the position, brother.
2 The beating of his heart was a positive pain.
3 He wore good and fashionable clothes, and looked like a gentleman of position.
4 Pyotr Petrovitch gave a positive start--all noticed it and recalled it afterwards.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 5: CHAPTER III 5 But he soon saw what it meant, and at once began to find positive amusement in the scandal.
6 He was crushed by poverty, but the anxieties of his position had of late ceased to weigh upon him.
7 We may add only that the practical, purely material difficulties of the affair occupied a secondary position in his mind.
8 But he saw how monstrously the thought of her disgraceful, shameful position was torturing her and had long tortured her.
9 But no one shared his enjoyment: his silent companion looked with positive hostility and mistrust at all these manifestations.
10 Then he seized the stone again and with one twist turned it back, so that it was in the same position again, though it stood a very little higher.
11 He looked askance and rather indignantly at Raskolnikov; he was so very badly dressed, and in spite of his humiliating position, his bearing was by no means in keeping with his clothes.
12 In the passage the idea had occurred to him to keep on his overcoat and walk away, and so give the two ladies a sharp and emphatic lesson and make them feel the gravity of the position.
13 Avdotya Romanovna," Luzhin declared huffily, "your words are of too much consequence to me; I will say more, they are offensive in view of the position I have the honour to occupy in relation to you.
14 Marfa Petrovna accidentally overheard her husband imploring Dounia in the garden, and, putting quite a wrong interpretation on the position, threw the blame upon her, believing her to be the cause of it all.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 15 That's no matter," answered Porfiry Petrovitch, receiving his explanation of his pecuniary position coldly, "but you can, if you prefer, write straight to me, to say, that having been informed of the matter, and claiming such and such as your property, you beg.
16 Amalia Ivanovna herself had been invited with great ceremony in spite of the recent unpleasantness, and so she was very busy with preparations and was taking a positive pleasure in them; she was moreover dressed up to the nines, all in new black silk, and she was proud of it.
17 In one place one hears of a student's robbing the mail on the high road; in another place people of good social position forge false banknotes; in Moscow of late a whole gang has been captured who used to forge lottery tickets, and one of the ringleaders was a lecturer in universal history; then our secretary abroad was murdered from some obscure motive of gain.
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