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1  a purse stuffed full of something.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER IV
2  I took a purse off her neck, made of chamois leather.
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3  The purse lay at the top, and yet the hollow was not filled up.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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4  Suddenly he remembered that there had been blood on the purse too.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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5  There turned out to be in the purse three hundred and seventeen roubles and sixty copecks.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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6  The fact that he had never opened the purse and did not even know how much was in it seemed incredible.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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7  And the things--chains and trinkets--I buried under a stone with the purse next morning in a yard off the V---- Prospect.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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8  He ended by indicating the stone in the yard off the Voznesensky Prospect under which the purse and the trinkets were found.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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9  On the string were two crosses, one of Cyprus wood and one of copper, and an image in silver filigree, and with them a small greasy chamois leather purse with a steel rim and ring.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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10  Finally some of the lawyers more versed in psychology admitted that it was possible he had really not looked into the purse, and so didn't know what was in it when he hid it under the stone.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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11  The purse was stuffed very full; Raskolnikov thrust it in his pocket without looking at it, flung the crosses on the old woman's body and rushed back into the bedroom, this time taking the axe with him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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12  You see, Rodya, to my thinking, the great thing for getting on in the world is always to keep to the seasons; if you don't insist on having asparagus in January, you keep your money in your purse; and it's the same with this purchase.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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13  The lawyers and the judges were very much struck, among other things, by the fact that he had hidden the trinkets and the purse under a stone, without making use of them, and that, what was more, he did not now remember what the trinkets were like, or even how many there were.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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14  In his impatience he raised the axe again to cut the string from above on the body, but did not dare, and with difficulty, smearing his hand and the axe in the blood, after two minutes' hurried effort, he cut the string and took it off without touching the body with the axe; he was not mistaken--it was a purse.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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