All 3 Uses of
amass
in
Crime and Punishment
- But what he loved and valued above all was the money he had amassed by his labour, and by all sorts of devices: that money made him the equal of all who had been his superiors.†
Chpt 4.3
- For many years he had had voluptuous dreams of marriage, but he had gone on waiting and amassing money.†
Chpt 4.3 *
- The peasants have vodka, the educated young people, shut out from activity, waste themselves in impossible dreams and visions and are crippled by theories; Jews have sprung up and are amassing money, and all the rest give themselves up to debauchery.†
Chpt 6.4
Definition:
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(amass) get or gather together