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1  This idea made me shudder and recalled me to action.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  I broke from the house angry and disturbed and retired to meditate on some other mode of action.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
3  Yet such must be the impression conveyed to you by what appears to be the purport of my actions.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
4  The cottage of my protectors had been the only school in which I had studied human nature, but this book developed new and mightier scenes of action.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
5  They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
6  He knew that I could not have a more kind and attentive nurse than himself; and, firm in the hope he felt of my recovery, he did not doubt that, instead of doing harm, he performed the kindest action that he could towards them.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
7  The busy stage of life, the virtues of heroes, and the actions of men were his theme; and his hope and his dream was to become one among those whose names are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
8  I remembered too well the treatment I had suffered the night before from the barbarous villagers, and resolved, whatever course of conduct I might hereafter think it right to pursue, that for the present I would remain quietly in my hovel, watching and endeavouring to discover the motives which influenced their actions.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12