1 Her relations had all thrown her off.
2 I saw the same thing with a relative of my own not long ago.
3 She would write and post letters for them to their relations.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 4 But by degrees closer relations sprang up between them and Sonia.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 5 She had a relation, a niece I believe, living with her, a deaf and dumb girl of fifteen, or perhaps not more than fourteen.
6 Then I took a ten-rouble note from the table and handed it to you by way of first instalment on my part for the benefit of your relative.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 5: CHAPTER III 7 He did not utter a word on any other subject and did not display the slightest desire to enter into more personal relations with the two ladies.
8 'I am afraid,' I would say, 'a relation of mine lost twenty-five roubles the other day through a false note,' and then I'd tell them the whole story.
9 Very well, then, keep it in mind; and now will you accept for the benefit of your relation the small sum that I am able to spare, from me personally.
10 He is already of the rank of a counsellor, Pyotr Petrovitch Luzhin, and is distantly related to Marfa Petrovna, who has been very active in bringing the match about.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 11 The crimes of these men are of course relative and varied; for the most part they seek in very varied ways the destruction of the present for the sake of the better.
12 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.
13 Only, seeing that you are not a student now and have lost your lessons and your clothes, and that through the young lady's death she has no need to treat you as a relation, she suddenly took fright; and as you hid in your den and dropped all your old relations with her, she planned to get rid of you.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER III 14 Only, seeing that you are not a student now and have lost your lessons and your clothes, and that through the young lady's death she has no need to treat you as a relation, she suddenly took fright; and as you hid in your den and dropped all your old relations with her, she planned to get rid of you.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER III