1 The slight shivering still persisted, but that too was an almost pleasant sensation.
2 But a strange persistent murmur which sometimes rose to a shout in the next room attracted his attention.
3 Raskolnikov himself lay without speaking, on his back, gazing persistently, though without understanding, at the stranger.
4 Raskolnikov was worried that this senseless dream haunted his memory so miserably, the impression of this feverish delirium persisted so long.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII 5 He looked repeatedly at the clerk, partly no doubt because the latter was staring persistently at him, obviously anxious to enter into conversation.
6 Perhaps the cold, or the dampness, or the dark, or the wind that howled under the window and tossed the trees roused a sort of persistent craving for the fantastic.
7 He drew a deep breath--but his dream seemed strangely to persist: his door was flung open and a man whom he had never seen stood in the doorway watching him intently.
8 She began slowly backing away from him into the corner, staring intently, persistently at him, but still uttered no sound, as though she could not get breath to scream.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER VII 9 Only fancy, she rushed off there, to the other general's, and, imagine, she was so persistent that she managed to get the chief to see her, had him fetched out from dinner, it seems.
10 Raskolnikov smiled sarcastically, Razumihin fidgeted, but Pyotr Petrovitch did not accept the reproof; on the contrary, at every word he became more persistent and irritable, as though he relished it.
11 Raskolnikov put in again, still addressing Nikodim Fomitch, but trying his best to address Ilya Petrovitch also, though the latter persistently appeared to be rummaging among his papers and to be contemptuously oblivious of him.