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1  It was nearly eight o'clock, the sun was setting.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
2  Razumihin had, indeed, been dreaming of setting up as a publisher.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER III
3  Crossing the bridge, he gazed quietly and calmly at the Neva, at the glowing red sun setting in the glowing sky.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
4  His dark, mutton-chop whiskers made an agreeable setting on both sides, growing thickly upon his shining, clean-shaven chin.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V
5  To say nothing of your strange and offensive setting me on a level with an impertinent boy, you admit the possibility of breaking your promise to me.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER II
6  I have mentioned already that Pyotr Petrovitch is just setting off for Petersburg, where he has a great deal of business, and he wants to open a legal bureau.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
7  The little room into which the young man walked, with yellow paper on the walls, geraniums and muslin curtains in the windows, was brightly lighted up at that moment by the setting sun.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
8  Setting aside the general question of chastity and feminine modesty as useless in themselves and indeed prejudices, I fully accept her chastity with me, because that's for her to decide.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER I
9  Drawing a breath, pressing his hand against his throbbing heart, and once more feeling for the axe and setting it straight, he began softly and cautiously ascending the stairs, listening every minute.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
10  Katerina Ivanovna was busy with the dying man; she was giving him water, wiping the blood and sweat from his head, setting his pillow straight, and had only turned now and then for a moment to address the priest.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VII
11  In this vice at least there is something permanent, founded indeed upon nature and not dependent on fantasy, something present in the blood like an ever-burning ember, for ever setting one on fire and, maybe, not to be quickly extinguished, even with years.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER III
12  At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
13  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.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI