1 I believe Avdotya Romanovna is sacrificing herself generously and imprudently for the sake of.
2 He had not drunk a drop of wine all this time and had ordered tea more for the sake of appearances than anything.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 6: CHAPTER VI 3 Here, you, for instance, have come to me not only for a definite object, but for the sake of hearing something new.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContext Highlight In PART 6: CHAPTER III 4 The crimes of these men are of course relative and varied; for the most part they seek in very varied ways the destruction of the present for the sake of the better.
5 A man in health has, of course, no reason to see them, because he is above all a man of this earth and is bound for the sake of completeness and order to live only in this life.
6 But if such a one is forced for the sake of his idea to step over a corpse or wade through blood, he can, I maintain, find within himself, in his conscience, a sanction for wading through blood--that depends on the idea and its dimensions, note that.
7 Forgive my troubling you about such trifles," he went on, a little disconcerted, "the things are only worth five roubles, but I prize them particularly for the sake of those from whom they came to me, and I must confess that I was alarmed when I heard.