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1  Fear not that I shall be the instrument of future mischief.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
2  The old man, whom I soon perceived to be blind, employed his leisure hours on his instrument or in contemplation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
3  When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
4  I remembered only, and it was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
5  I felt as if he had placed carefully, one by one, in my view those instruments which were to be afterwards used in putting me to a slow and cruel death.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
6  I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
7  With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
8  They had left to us, as an easier task, to give new names and arrange in connected classifications the facts which they in a great degree had been the instruments of bringing to light.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
9  At first his countenance was illuminated with pleasure, but as he continued, thoughtfulness and sadness succeeded; at length, laying aside the instrument, he sat absorbed in reflection.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
10  That he should live to be an instrument of mischief disturbs me; in other respects, this hour, when I momentarily expect my release, is the only happy one which I have enjoyed for several years.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
11  In the evening the young girl and her companion were employed in various occupations which I did not understand; and the old man again took up the instrument which produced the divine sounds that had enchanted me in the morning.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
12  Yet, before I departed, there was a task to perform, on which I shuddered to reflect; I must pack up my chemical instruments, and for that purpose I must enter the room which had been the scene of my odious work, and I must handle those utensils the sight of which was sickening to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
13  The young girl was occupied in arranging the cottage; but presently she took something out of a drawer, which employed her hands, and she sat down beside the old man, who, taking up an instrument, began to play and to produce sounds sweeter than the voice of the thrush or the nightingale.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
14  So soon as he had finished, the youth began, not to play, but to utter sounds that were monotonous, and neither resembling the harmony of the old man's instrument nor the songs of the birds; I since found that he read aloud, but at that time I knew nothing of the science of words or letters.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
15  A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, improved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4