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1  The staircase was steep, narrow and all sloppy with dirty water.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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2  But he was drinking water from a spring which flowed gurgling close by.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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3  She went downstairs and returned with a white earthenware jug of water.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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4  He remembered only swallowing one sip of the cold water and spilling some on his neck.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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5  She took up the basin of water at Raskolnikov's request, but almost fell down with her burden.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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6  The sky was without a cloud and the water was almost bright blue, which is so rare in the Neva.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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7  He opened his hand, stared at the coin, and with a sweep of his arm flung it into the water; then he turned and went home.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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8  Glancing, however, into the kitchen and seeing a bucket half full of water on a bench, he bethought him of washing his hands and the axe.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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9  But there was no need of a boat; a policeman ran down the steps to the canal, threw off his great coat and his boots and rushed into the water.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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10  He dropped the axe with the blade in the water, snatched a piece of soap that lay in a broken saucer on the window, and began washing his hands in the bucket.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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11  Moreover he could be seen and noticed from the banks on all sides; it would look suspicious for a man to go down on purpose, stop, and throw something into the water.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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12  And it was so cool, it was wonderful, wonderful, blue, cold water running among the parti-coloured stones and over the clean sand which glistened here and there like gold.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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13  Katerina Ivanovna ran to the window; there, on a broken chair in the corner, a large earthenware basin full of water had been stood, in readiness for washing her children's and husband's linen that night.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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14  The filthy water parted and swallowed up its victim for a moment, but an instant later the drowning woman floated to the surface, moving slowly with the current, her head and legs in the water, her skirt inflated like a balloon over her back.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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15  When he recovered consciousness, he found himself sitting in a chair, supported by someone on the right side, while someone else was standing on the left, holding a yellowish glass filled with yellow water, and Nikodim Fomitch standing before him, looking intently at him.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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16  He wandered along the bank of the Ekaterininsky Canal for half an hour or more and looked several times at the steps running down to the water, but he could not think of carrying out his plan; either rafts stood at the steps' edge, and women were washing clothes on them, or boats were moored there, and people were swarming everywhere.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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17  Bending over the water, he gazed mechanically at the last pink flush of the sunset, at the row of houses growing dark in the gathering twilight, at one distant attic window on the left bank, flashing as though on fire in the last rays of the setting sun, at the darkening water of the canal, and the water seemed to catch his attention.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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