1 The staircase was steep, narrow and all sloppy with dirty water.
2 But he was drinking water from a spring which flowed gurgling close by.
3 She went downstairs and returned with a white earthenware jug of water.
4 He remembered only swallowing one sip of the cold water and spilling some on his neck.
5 She took up the basin of water at Raskolnikov's request, but almost fell down with her burden.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII 6 The sky was without a cloud and the water was almost bright blue, which is so rare in the Neva.
7 He opened his hand, stared at the coin, and with a sweep of his arm flung it into the water; then he turned and went home.
8 Glancing, however, into the kitchen and seeing a bucket half full of water on a bench, he bethought him of washing his hands and the axe.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 9 But there was no need of a boat; a policeman ran down the steps to the canal, threw off his great coat and his boots and rushed into the water.
10 He dropped the axe with the blade in the water, snatched a piece of soap that lay in a broken saucer on the window, and began washing his hands in the bucket.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 11 Moreover he could be seen and noticed from the banks on all sides; it would look suspicious for a man to go down on purpose, stop, and throw something into the water.
12 And it was so cool, it was wonderful, wonderful, blue, cold water running among the parti-coloured stones and over the clean sand which glistened here and there like gold.
13 Katerina Ivanovna ran to the window; there, on a broken chair in the corner, a large earthenware basin full of water had been stood, in readiness for washing her children's and husband's linen that night.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII 14 The filthy water parted and swallowed up its victim for a moment, but an instant later the drowning woman floated to the surface, moving slowly with the current, her head and legs in the water, her skirt inflated like a balloon over her back.
15 When he recovered consciousness, he found himself sitting in a chair, supported by someone on the right side, while someone else was standing on the left, holding a yellowish glass filled with yellow water, and Nikodim Fomitch standing before him, looking intently at him.
16 He wandered along the bank of the Ekaterininsky Canal for half an hour or more and looked several times at the steps running down to the water, but he could not think of carrying out his plan; either rafts stood at the steps' edge, and women were washing clothes on them, or boats were moored there, and people were swarming everywhere.
17 Bending over the water, he gazed mechanically at the last pink flush of the sunset, at the row of houses growing dark in the gathering twilight, at one distant attic window on the left bank, flashing as though on fire in the last rays of the setting sun, at the darkening water of the canal, and the water seemed to catch his attention.
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