1 The horses are young and ready to take fright.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII 2 And directly afterwards she ordered the horses to be harnessed to drive to the town immediately after dinner.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER III 3 On the left side, just over the heart, was a large, sinister-looking yellowish-black bruise--a cruel kick from the horse's hoof.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII 4 Undressing, and quivering like an overdriven horse, he lay down on the sofa, drew his greatcoat over him, and at once sank into oblivion.
5 A coachman, after shouting at him two or three times, gave him a violent lash on the back with his whip, for having almost fallen under his horses' hoofs.
6 The first morning I came back from the office I found Katerina Ivanovna had cooked two courses for dinner--soup and salt meat with horse radish--which we had never dreamed of till then.
7 An elegant carriage stood in the middle of the road with a pair of spirited grey horses; there was no one in it, and the coachman had got off his box and stood by; the horses were being held by the bridle.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER VII 8 Of course, that's all taradiddle; he lies like a horse, for I know this Dushkin, he is a pawnbroker and a receiver of stolen goods, and he did not cheat Nikolay out of a thirty-rouble trinket in order to give it to the police.
9 And yet when a drunken man who, for some unknown reason, was being taken somewhere in a huge waggon dragged by a heavy dray horse, suddenly shouted at him as he drove past: "Hey there, German hatter" bawling at the top of his voice and pointing at him--the young man stopped suddenly and clutched tremulously at his hat.