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1  I cannot pretend to describe what I then felt.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
2  What his feelings were whom I pursued I cannot know.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
3  I cannot describe to you my sensations on the near prospect of my undertaking.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 2
4  Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
5  As the circumstances of his marriage illustrate his character, I cannot refrain from relating them.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
6  The inside of the cottage was dark, and I heard no motion; I cannot describe the agony of this suspense.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 16
7  I cannot describe the delight I felt when I learned the ideas appropriated to each of these sounds and was able to pronounce them.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
8  I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
9  A scene has just passed of such uncommon interest that, although it is highly probable that these papers may never reach you, yet I cannot forbear recording it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
10  I will revenge my injuries; if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear, and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
11  Yet I cannot ask you to renounce your country and friends to fulfil this task; and now that you are returning to England, you will have little chance of meeting with him.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
12  So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 4
13  I cannot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have endured misery which nothing but the eternal sentiment of a just retribution burning within my heart could have enabled me to support.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  When I run over the frightful catalogue of my sins, I cannot believe that I am the same creature whose thoughts were once filled with sublime and transcendent visions of the beauty and the majesty of goodness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
15  These were wild and miserable thoughts, but I cannot describe to you how the eternal twinkling of the stars weighed upon me and how I listened to every blast of wind as if it were a dull ugly siroc on its way to consume me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17