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1  No, Dounia was not that sort when I knew her and.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
2  He knew of no end of resources by which to earn money.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  He already knew all about Lizaveta and she knew him a little too.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V
4  There was only one stranger in the bar and a man I knew asleep on a bench and our two boys.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
5  He knew that the flat had been occupied by a German clerk in the civil service, and his family.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
6  But he knew he was not looking thoroughly, that there might be something quite noticeable that he was overlooking.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
7  I knew them, and I felt suspicious about the ear-rings at once, for I knew the murdered woman lent money on pledges.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
8  He had not far to go; he knew indeed how many steps it was from the gate of his lodging house: exactly seven hundred and thirty.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
9  Now, in a flash, he knew, that what he was least of all disposed for at that moment was to be face to face with anyone in the wide world.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
10  When he found the old woman he had felt an insurmountable repulsion for her at the first glance, though he knew nothing special about her.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
11  And though Nikolay is not a drunkard, he drinks, and I knew he had a job in that house, painting work with Dmitri, who comes from the same village, too.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
12  All he knew, all he felt was that everything must be changed "one way or another," he repeated with desperate and immovable self-confidence and determination.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
13  It was a back staircase, dark and narrow, but he was familiar with it already, and knew his way, and he liked all these surroundings: in such darkness even the most inquisitive eyes were not to be dreaded.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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14  In the previous winter a student he knew called Pokorev, who had left for Harkov, had chanced in conversation to give him the address of Alyona Ivanovna, the old pawnbroker, in case he might want to pawn anything.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
15  The old woman had already made her will, and Lizaveta knew of it, and by this will she would not get a farthing; nothing but the movables, chairs and so on; all the money was left to a monastery in the province of N----, that prayers might be said for her in perpetuity.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VI
16  And therefore they had to take turns, so that in every house she was expected before she arrived, and everyone knew that on such and such a day Marfa Petrovna would be reading the letter in such and such a place and people assembled for every reading of it, even many who had heard it several times already both in their own houses and in other people's.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER III
17  He knew, he knew perfectly well that at that moment they were at the flat, that they were greatly astonished at finding it unlocked, as the door had just been fastened, that by now they were looking at the bodies, that before another minute had passed they would guess and completely realise that the murderer had just been there, and had succeeded in hiding somewhere, slipping by them and escaping.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VII
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