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1  Sonia strained every nerve to listen.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER IV
2  His nerves were more and more strained.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER IV
3  Raskolnikov still gazed wildly with strained attention.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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4  He fixed a strained intent look on his sister, but did not hear or did not understand her words.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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5  "I am young and strong, I don't get tired, but it was a great strain for mother," answered Dounia.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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6  In amazement he listened with strained attention to Porfiry Petrovitch who still seemed frightened as he looked after him with friendly solicitude.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 4: CHAPTER V
7  Sonia had been listening with strained attention, though she too seemed unable to grasp it all; she seemed as though she had just returned to consciousness.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER III
8  And if he were not lying in high fever it was perhaps just because this continual inner strain helped to keep him on his legs and in possession of his faculties.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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9  But now, strange to say, in the shafts of such a cart he saw a thin little sorrel beast, one of those peasants' nags which he had often seen straining their utmost under a heavy load of wood or hay, especially when the wheels were stuck in the mud or in a rut.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER V