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1  A quarter of an hour later, they were all engaged in a lively conversation.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III
2  There his progress was barred by some porters who were engaged in moving furniture out of a flat.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
3  He was engaged in such monologues when Zossimov, who had spent the night in Praskovya Pavlovna's parlour, came in.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II
4  At last, realising that he was engaged in this interesting pursuit, he started, got up and walked resolutely out of the room.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VI
5  "I am compelled to keep a business engagement, and so I shall not be in your way," he added with an air of some pique and he began getting up.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II
6  When I heard of all this I wanted to blow him up, too, to clear my conscience, but by that time harmony reigned between me and Pashenka, and I insisted on stopping the whole affair, engaging that you would pay.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
7  Warming up, Katerina Ivanovna proceeded to enlarge on the peaceful and happy life they would lead in T----, on the gymnasium teachers whom she would engage to give lessons in her boarding-school, one a most respectable old Frenchman, one Mangot, who had taught Katerina Ivanovna herself in old days and was still living in T----, and would no doubt teach in her school on moderate terms.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER II