1 Concerning the picture she could give no account.
2 By the by, I mean to lecture you a little upon their account myself.
3 Tears also gushed from the eyes of Clerval, as he read the account of my misfortune.
4 I gave him pretty nearly the same account of my former pursuits as I had given to his fellow professor.
5 'I am about to undertake that task; and it is on that account that I feel so many overwhelming terrors.
6 Another woman confirmed the account of the fishermen having brought the body into her house; it was not cold.
7 It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.
8 You have been ill, very ill, and even the constant letters of dear kind Henry are not sufficient to reassure me on your account.
9 This account rather alarmed us, and we continued to search for him until night fell, when Elizabeth conjectured that he might have returned to the house.
10 In rather a too philosophical and connected a strain, perhaps, I have given an account of the conclusions I had come to concerning them in my early years.
11 But in giving an account of the progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred in the beginning of the month of August of the same year.
12 Krempe a great deal of sound sense and real information, combined, it is true, with a repulsive physiognomy and manners, but not on that account the less valuable.
13 Chemistry is that branch of natural philosophy in which the greatest improvements have been and may be made; it is on that account that I have made it my peculiar study; but at the same time, I have not neglected the other branches of science.
14 Clerval at first attributed my unusual spirits to joy on his arrival, but when he observed me more attentively, he saw a wildness in my eyes for which he could not account, and my loud, unrestrained, heartless laughter frightened and astonished him.
15 She was alarmed by this account and passed several hours in looking for him, when the gates of Geneva were shut, and she was forced to remain several hours of the night in a barn belonging to a cottage, being unwilling to call up the inhabitants, to whom she was well known.
16 The son confirmed his father's account, but when Daniel Nugent was called he swore positively that just before the fall of his companion, he saw a boat, with a single man in it, at a short distance from the shore; and as far as he could judge by the light of a few stars, it was the same boat in which I had just landed.
17 I suppose some astonishment was exhibited in my countenance, for Mr. Kirwin hastened to say, "Immediately upon your being taken ill, all the papers that were on your person were brought me, and I examined them that I might discover some trace by which I could send to your relations an account of your misfortune and illness."
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