1 Here, take this one, of cypress wood.
2 There was no trace left on it, only the wood was still damp.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 3 But strange to say she did not stir, as though she were made of wood.
4 He picked up this piece of wood in one of his wanderings in a courtyard where there was some sort of a workshop.
5 This pledge was, however, only a smoothly planed piece of wood the size and thickness of a silver cigarette case.
6 Afterwards he had added to the wood a thin smooth piece of iron, which he had also picked up at the same time in the street.
7 The iron strip was added to give weight, so that the woman might not guess the first minute that the "thing" was made of wood.
8 But again the porter was not at home, and he succeeded in putting the axe back under the bench, and even covering it with the chunk of wood as before.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 9 When they were clean, he took out the axe, washed the blade and spent a long time, about three minutes, washing the wood where there were spots of blood rubbing them with soap.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 10 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 DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 11 He had noticed passing through this street lately that there was a hotel somewhere towards the end, built of wood, but fairly large, and its name he remembered was something like Adrianople.
12 Sometimes he walked out of the town on to the high road, once he had even reached a little wood, but the lonelier the place was, the more he seemed to be aware of an uneasy presence near him.
13 A few minutes afterwards the woman went to the cowshed, and through a crack in the wall she saw in the stable adjoining he had made a noose of his sash from the beam, stood on a block of wood, and was trying to put his neck in the noose.
14 His study was a room neither large nor small, furnished with a large writing-table, that stood before a sofa, upholstered in checked material, a bureau, a bookcase in the corner and several chairs--all government furniture, of polished yellow wood.
15 But now, strange to say, in the shafts of such a cart he saw a thin little sorrel beast, one of those peasants' nags which he had often seen straining their utmost under a heavy load of wood or hay, especially when the wheels were stuck in the mud or in a rut.
16 Putting the iron which was a little the smaller on the piece of wood, he fastened them very firmly, crossing and re-crossing the thread round them; then wrapped them carefully and daintily in clean white paper and tied up the parcel so that it would be very difficult to untie it.
17 The furniture, all very old and of yellow wood, consisted of a sofa with a huge bent wooden back, an oval table in front of the sofa, a dressing-table with a looking-glass fixed on it between the windows, chairs along the walls and two or three half-penny prints in yellow frames, representing German damsels with birds in their hands--that was all.
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