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1  The task of his destruction was mine, but I have failed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
2  Destiny was too potent, and her immutable laws had decreed my utter and terrible destruction.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
3  I will not lead you on, unguarded and ardent as I then was, to your destruction and infallible misery.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
4  If the multitude of mankind knew of my existence, they would do as you do, and arm themselves for my destruction.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
5  Immense and rugged mountains of ice often barred up my passage, and I often heard the thunder of the ground sea, which threatened my destruction.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
6  My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner, but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
7  Sometimes I entreated my attendants to assist me in the destruction of the fiend by whom I was tormented; and at others I felt the fingers of the monster already grasping my neck, and screamed aloud with agony and terror.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
8  He showed unparalleled malignity and selfishness in evil; he destroyed my friends; he devoted to destruction beings who possessed exquisite sensations, happiness, and wisdom; nor do I know where this thirst for vengeance may end.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
9  All, save I, were at rest or in enjoyment; I, like the arch-fiend, bore a hell within me, and finding myself unsympathized with, wished to tear up the trees, spread havoc and destruction around me, and then to have sat down and enjoyed the ruin.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
10  He had escaped me, and I must commence a destructive and almost endless journey across the mountainous ices of the ocean, amidst cold that few of the inhabitants could long endure and which I, the native of a genial and sunny climate, could not hope to survive.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
11  You may conceive my astonishment on hearing such a question addressed to me from a man on the brink of destruction and to whom I should have supposed that my vessel would have been a resource which he would not have exchanged for the most precious wealth the earth can afford.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4
12  The path, as you ascend higher, is intersected by ravines of snow, down which stones continually roll from above; one of them is particularly dangerous, as the slightest sound, such as even speaking in a loud voice, produces a concussion of air sufficient to draw destruction upon the head of the speaker.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10