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1  By degrees, after the morning's dawn, sleep came.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
2  Two years after this event Caroline became his wife.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
3  Soon after we heard that the poor victim had expressed a desire to see my cousin.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
4  Soon after this he inquired if I thought that the breaking up of the ice had destroyed the other sledge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4
5  The trial began, and after the advocate against her had stated the charge, several witnesses were called.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
6  Accordingly, a few months after your departure for Ingolstadt, Justine was called home by her repentant mother.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
7  About two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice broke and freed our ship.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4
8  Often, after the rest of the family had retired for the night, I took the boat and passed many hours upon the water.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
9  We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to encounter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4
10  The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable epoch from which I dated all my woe.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
11  The shutting of the gates regularly at ten o'clock and the impossibility of remaining on the lake after that hour had rendered our residence within the walls of Geneva very irksome to me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
12  Sometimes, with my sails set, I was carried by the wind; and sometimes, after rowing into the middle of the lake, I left the boat to pursue its own course and gave way to my own miserable reflections.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
13  He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the interment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
14  Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
15  As he went on I felt as if my soul were grappling with a palpable enemy; one by one the various keys were touched which formed the mechanism of my being; chord after chord was sounded, and soon my mind was filled with one thought, one conception, one purpose.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
16  She nursed Madame Frankenstein, my aunt, in her last illness, with the greatest affection and care and afterwards attended her own mother during a tedious illness, in a manner that excited the admiration of all who knew her, after which she again lived in my uncle's house, where she was beloved by all the family.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
17  During the two years that had elapsed previous to their marriage my father had gradually relinquished all his public functions; and immediately after their union they sought the pleasant climate of Italy, and the change of scene and interest attendant on a tour through that land of wonders, as a restorative for her weakened frame.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
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