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1  Freedom will lose its attractions.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V
2  When I made your acquaintance, I felt attracted by you.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER II
3  And the proof of it is that lots of people are attracted by her.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
4  "You seem to find her attractive yourself," laughed the officer.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
5  I am trying now to attract her to the community, but on quite, quite a different footing.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER I
6  He felt strangely attracted by the singing and all the noise and uproar in the saloon below.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
7  But a strange persistent murmur which sometimes rose to a shout in the next room attracted his attention.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VI
8  Here his rags did not attract contemptuous attention, and one could walk about in any attire without scandalising people.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
9  The hoarse broken voice of Katerina Ivanovna could be heard from the bridge, and it certainly was a strange spectacle likely to attract a street crowd.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER V
10  Napoleon attracted him tremendously, that is, what affected him was that a great many men of genius have not hesitated at wrongdoing, but have overstepped the law without thinking about it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER V
11  She could not have been called pretty, but her blue eyes were so clear, and when they lighted up, there was such a kindliness and simplicity in her expression that one could not help being attracted.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV
12  A peculiar circumstance attracted his attention: there seemed to be some kind of festivity going on, there were crowds of gaily dressed townspeople, peasant women, their husbands, and riff-raff of all sorts, all singing and all more or less drunk.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
13  It is true that he is forty-five years old, but he is of a fairly prepossessing appearance and might still be thought attractive by women, and he is altogether a very respectable and presentable man, only he seems a little morose and somewhat conceited.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III