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1  I've given you a great promise, I am your betrothed.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II
2  here, I brought you the pledge I promised the other day.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
3  Besides, you promised Amalia Ivanovna to pay what's owing.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VI
4  Dounia, I promised Luzhin I'd throw him downstairs and told him to go to hell.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I
5  Raskolnikov told her his name and address and promised to be sure to come next day.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII
6  Let us go, mother," said Avdotya Romanovna, "he will certainly do what he has promised.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I
7  Zossimov gave orders that they shouldn't wake him and promised to see him again about eleven.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II
8  Both women waited this time completely relying on Razumihin's promise; he actually had succeeded in bringing Zossimov.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I
9  But you have bound me, Pulcheria Alexandrovna," Luzhin stormed in a frenzy, "by your promise, and now you deny it and.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II
10  for why should I not confess it, at the very beginning I promised to marry her daughter, it was a verbal promise, freely given.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
11  for why should I not confess it, at the very beginning I promised to marry her daughter, it was a verbal promise, freely given.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER I
12  Now good-bye for the present, he concluded hurriedly, noticing again a strange expression in Dounia's eyes at his last words and promises.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VII
13  He didn't understand that that consciousness might be the promise of a future crisis, of a new view of life and of his future resurrection.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII
14  To say nothing of your strange and offensive setting me on a level with an impertinent boy, you admit the possibility of breaking your promise to me.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II
15  He said something too about Sonia and promised to come himself in a day or two to see Raskolnikov, mentioning that "he would like to consult with him, that there were things they must talk over."
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER I
16  He promised to meet us at the station, you know; instead of that he sent a servant to bring us the address of these lodgings and to show us the way; and he sent a message that he would be here himself this morning.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II
17  But at last he lost all control and had the face to make Dounia an open and shameful proposal, promising her all sorts of inducements and offering, besides, to throw up everything and take her to another estate of his, or even abroad.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
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