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    1. His boots ground into her muscles like a pestle working the bottom of a mortar


    2. Though you should squash the fool in the mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet his foolishness will not depart from him


    3. The others watched her mix the ingredients under Marcus’s directions, grinding them in a mortar and pestle


    4. Pounding maize corn was the most strenuous of these activities but, once Unica’s back had toughened up a little, she enjoyed working with Liloe at the rhythmic lifting and pounding in turn of her timber pestle into a large wooden mortar of corn


    5. Crush the minced onion and celery seed in a mortar and pestle


    6. Crush rosemary and thyme in a mortar and pestle and rub the roast with it, along with garlic powder and ground pepper


    7. “I understand,” said Flo, “that folks take the medicine home and break them up in a mortar and pestle so they’re more easily consumed


    8. He asked the Director for a mortar and pestle and began crushing the pills with these pharmacy tools


    9. Mortar: A vessel of wood, metal or stone in the form of an inverted bell, in which substances are crushed or pounded with a pestle


    10. Pestle: A club to pound things in a mortar

    11. She brought out a bowl of hammered silver and what appeared to be a small wooden pestle


    12. Next, he pulverized the magical ula-ula and hala-hala shrubs (found exclusively in Kravena), using clay mortar and pestle, and applied them directly on Sophia’s wounds


    13. You can make a paste by crushing a handful of with a mortar and pestle


    14. Davis be arrested without delay, and Hannah shook her fist at thèvillain' and pounded potatoes for dinner as if she had him under her pestle


    15. Mattie was grinding something with a mortar and pestle


    16. She ground everything together with a pestle as she


    17. On the table stood a brass mortar, with a pestle in it, a small brass pestle, not much more than six inches long


    18. Mitya already had opened the door with one hand when, with the other, he snatched up the pestle, and thrust it in his side-pocket


    19. Mitya was beside himself, he suddenly pulled the brass pestle out of his pocket


    20. In Mitya's hands was a brass pestle, and he flung it mechanically in the grass

    21. The pestle fell two paces from Grigory, not in the grass but on the path, in a most conspicuous place


    22. He remembered afterwards clearly, that he had been awfully anxious to make sure whether he had broken the old man's skull, or simply stunned him with the pestle


    23. ” He began questioning her and at once learnt the most vital fact, that is, that when Dmitri Fyodorovitch had run out to look for Grushenka, he had snatched up a pestle from the mortar, and that when he returned, the pestle was not with him and his hands were smeared with blood


    24. Moreover, the question he had to decide was not how soon the blood had dried, but where Dmitri Fyodorovitch had run with the pestle, or rather, whether it really was to Fyodor Pavlovitch's, and how he could satisfactorily ascertain


    25. He described, too, his visit to Fenya, and told her about the pestle


    26. They began looking with a lantern by the fence and found the brass pestle dropped in a most conspicuous place on the garden path


    27. And Mitya described how he took the pestle and ran


    28. Coming at last to the moment when, seeing his father peering out of the window, his hatred flared up and he pulled the pestle out of his pocket, he suddenly, as though of design, stopped short


    29. ” Scarcely had Mitya described how, sitting on the wall, he had struck Grigory on the head with the pestle, while the old man had hold of his left leg, and how he had then jumped down to look at him, when the prosecutor stopped him to ask him to describe exactly how he was sitting on the wall


    30. “The pestle was in my hand

    31. ” On it lay Fyodor Pavlovitch's white silk dressing-gown, stained with blood; the fatal brass pestle with which the supposed murder had been committed; Mitya's shirt, with a blood-stained sleeve; his coat, stained with blood in patches over the pocket in which he had put his handkerchief; the handkerchief itself, stiff with blood and by now quite yellow; the pistol loaded by Mitya at Perhotin's with a view to suicide, and taken from him on the sly at Mokroe by Trifon Borissovitch; the envelope in which the three thousand roubles had been put ready for Grushenka, the narrow pink ribbon with which it had been tied, and many other articles I don't remember


    32. “But note, frantic as he was, he took with him a brass pestle


    33. So it was by no means unconsciously, by no means involuntarily, that he snatched up that fatal pestle


    34. But having killed him, probably with one blow of the brass pestle, and having convinced himself, after careful search, that she was not there, he did not, however, forget to put his hand under the pillow and take out the envelope, the torn cover of which lies now on the table before us


    35. All because it was Karamazov, not Smerdyakov, he didn't think, he didn't reflect, and how should he? He ran away; he heard behind him the servant cry out; the old man caught him, stopped him and was felled to the ground by the brass pestle


    36. “The prisoner, running away in the garden in the dark, climbed over the fence, was seized by the servant, and knocked him down with a brass pestle


    37. But if I am so bloodthirsty and cruelly calculating that when I kill a man I only run back to find out whether he is alive to witness against me, why should I spend five minutes looking after my victim at the risk of encountering other witnesses? Why soak my handkerchief, wiping the blood off his head so that it may be evidence against me later? If he were so cold-hearted and calculating, why not hit the servant on the head again and again with the same pestle so as to kill him outright and relieve himself of all anxiety about the witness?


    38. “Again, though he ran to see whether the witness was alive, he left another witness on the path, that brass pestle which he had taken from the two women, and which they could always recognize afterwards as theirs, and prove that he had taken it from them


    39. Why did he do so? Just because he was grieved at having killed a man, an old servant; and he flung away the pestle with a curse, as a murderous weapon


    40. ‘He snatched up the pestle,’ they say, and you will remember how a whole edifice of psychology was built on that pestle—why he was bound to look at that pestle as a weapon, to snatch it up, and so on, and so on

    41. A very commonplace idea occurs to me at this point: What if that pestle had not been in sight, had not been lying on the shelf from which it was snatched by the prisoner, but had been put away in a cupboard? It would not have caught the prisoner's eye, and he would have run away without a weapon, with empty hands, and then he would certainly not have killed any one


    42. How then can I look upon the pestle as a proof of premeditation?


    43. The brass pestle he caught up instinctively without knowing why he did it


    44. He really may have done nothing but swing the pestle in the air, and so knocked the old man down


    45. But still it's not the thing to break your father's head with a pestle! Or what are we coming to?”


    1. There were none of the mortars and pestles Mattie used for grinding ingredients, none of her small pots for melting and boiling, no knives for chopping herbs


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