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1  And yet you are still unhappy and still avoid our society.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
2  It was my temper to avoid a crowd and to attach myself fervently to a few.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
3  I avoided explanation and maintained a continual silence concerning the wretch I had created.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
4  My father yielded at length to my desire to avoid society and strove by various arguments to banish my despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
5  I felt as if I was about the commission of a dreadful crime and avoided with shuddering anxiety any encounter with my fellow creatures.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
6  I followed, when I could, the courses of the rivers; but the daemon generally avoided these, as it was here that the population of the country chiefly collected.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
7  Before, dark and opaque bodies had surrounded me, impervious to my touch or sight; but I now found that I could wander on at liberty, with no obstacles which I could not either surmount or avoid.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
8  The porter opened the gates of the court, which had that night been my asylum, and I issued into the streets, pacing them with quick steps, as if I sought to avoid the wretch whom I feared every turning of the street would present to my view.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5