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1  Some sort of clerk not wearing a uniform was settling himself at a bureau to write.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER VIII
2  With my rags I ought to wear a cap, any sort of old pancake, but not this grotesque thing.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER I
3  Porfiry Petrovitch was wearing a dressing-gown, very clean linen, and trodden-down slippers.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER V
4  She was wearing a dress of thin dark stuff and she had a white transparent scarf round her neck.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER II
5  He was a young man with a beard, wearing a full, short-waisted coat, and looked like a messenger.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
6  Coarse laughing faces with pipes and cigarettes and heads wearing caps thrust themselves in at the doorway.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
7  She was wearing a very plain indoor dress, and had on a shabby old-fashioned hat, but she still carried a parasol.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER IV
8  It was an elderly woman in a kerchief and goatskin shoes, with a girl, probably her daughter, wearing a hat, and carrying a green parasol.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER II
9  Katerina Ivanovna in her old dress with the green shawl, wearing a torn straw hat, crushed in a hideous way on one side, was really frantic.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER V
10  "They're all generals' daughters, it seems, but they have all snub noses," interposed a tipsy peasant with a sly smile on his face, wearing a loose coat.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER VI
11  Tolstyakov, a friend of mine, is always obliged to take off his pudding basin when he goes into any public place where other people wear their hats or caps.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III
12  The exquisite pair of lavender gloves, real Louvain, told the same tale, if only from the fact of his not wearing them, but carrying them in his hand for show.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V
13  Neither she nor Katerina Ivanovna had been able to get mourning; Sonia was wearing dark brown, and Katerina Ivanovna had on her only dress, a dark striped cotton one.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 5: CHAPTER II
14  In the room he found also a boy with a little hand organ, a healthy-looking red-cheeked girl of eighteen, wearing a tucked-up striped skirt, and a Tyrolese hat with ribbons.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 6: CHAPTER III
15  He was wearing an old and hopelessly ragged black dress coat, with all its buttons missing except one, and that one he had buttoned, evidently clinging to this last trace of respectability.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
16  Beside him stood a girl of nine years old, tall and thin, wearing a thin and ragged chemise with an ancient cashmere pelisse flung over her bare shoulders, long outgrown and barely reaching her knees.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
17  The porter was standing at the door of his little room and was pointing him out to a short man who looked like an artisan, wearing a long coat and a waistcoat, and looking at a distance remarkably like a woman.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor Dostoevsky
ContextHighlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER VI
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