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 Current Search - attention in Frankenstein
1  The magistrate listened to me with attention and kindness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  All that had so long engaged my attention suddenly grew despicable.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
3  He was respected by all who knew him for his integrity and indefatigable attention to public business.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
4  My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
5  Shut in, however, by ice, it was impossible to follow his track, which we had observed with the greatest attention.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4
6  My attention at this time was solely directed towards my plan of introducing myself into the cottage of my protectors.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
7  The Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit languages engaged his attention, and I was easily induced to enter on the same studies.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
8  Although her disposition was gay and in many respects inconsiderate, yet she paid the greatest attention to every gesture of my aunt.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
9  One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
10  This aroused the stranger's attention, and he asked a multitude of questions concerning the route which the demon, as he called him, had pursued.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4
11  But my chief delights were the sight of the flowers, the birds, and all the gay apparel of summer; when those deserted me, I turned with more attention towards the cottagers.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
12  Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention and diverted our solicitude from our own situation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4
13  Under the guidance of my new preceptors I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
14  Thus situated, employed in the most detestable occupation, immersed in a solitude where nothing could for an instant call my attention from the actual scene in which I was engaged, my spirits became unequal; I grew restless and nervous.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
15  His feelings are forever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
16  My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I improved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
17  I sat one evening in my laboratory; the sun had set, and the moon was just rising from the sea; I had not sufficient light for my employment, and I remained idle, in a pause of consideration of whether I should leave my labour for the night or hasten its conclusion by an unremitting attention to it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
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