ADVANCEMENT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Spring advanced rapidly; the weather became fine and the skies cloudless.
2 In the mean time I worked on, and my labour was already considerably advanced.
3 The winter advanced, and an entire revolution of the seasons had taken place since I awoke into life.
4 Night was far advanced when I came to the halfway resting-place and seated myself beside the fountain.
5 It advanced; the heavens were clouded, and I soon felt the rain coming slowly in large drops, but its violence quickly increased.
6 Fear overcame me; I dared no advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.
7 It advanced from behind the mountains of Jura, and the thunder burst at once with frightful loudness from various quarters of the heavens.
8 Several new kinds of plants sprang up in the garden, which they dressed; and these signs of comfort increased daily as the season advanced.
9 I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.
10 My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.
11 The labour of winding among the little paths of the mountain and fixing my feet firmly as I advanced perplexed me, occupied as I was by the emotions which the occurrences of the day had produced.
12 I afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age and unfitness for so long a journey, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.
13 As night advanced I placed a variety of combustibles around the cottage, and after having destroyed every vestige of cultivation in the garden, I waited with forced impatience until the moon had sunk to commence my operations.
14 I am, however, in good spirits: my men are bold and apparently firm of purpose, nor do the floating sheets of ice that continually pass us, indicating the dangers of the region towards which we are advancing, appear to dismay them.
15 He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.
16 As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens; the blast tore along like a mighty avalanche and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that burst all bounds of reason and reflection.
17 I know not whether the fiend possessed the same advantages, but I found that, as before I had daily lost ground in the pursuit, I now gained on him, so much so that when I first saw the ocean he was but one day's journey in advance, and I hoped to intercept him before he should reach the beach.
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