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1  But my heart sank within me as with bitter sickness, and I refrained.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
2  Justine assumed an air of cheerfulness, while she with difficulty repressed her bitter tears.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
3  I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
4  I remembered only, and it was with a bitter anguish that I reflected on it, to order that my chemical instruments should be packed to go with me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
5  These are the reflections of the first days; but when the lapse of time proves the reality of the evil, then the actual bitterness of grief commences.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
6  But I will endeavour to detail these bitter circumstances to you, my dear sister; and while I am wafted towards England and towards you, I will not despond.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
7  Fortunately, as I spoke my native language, Mr. Kirwin alone understood me; but my gestures and bitter cries were sufficient to affright the other witnesses.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
8  Blasted as thou wert, my agony was still superior to thine, for the bitter sting of remorse will not cease to rankle in my wounds until death shall close them forever.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
9  He approached; his countenance bespoke bitter anguish, combined with disdain and malignity, while its unearthly ugliness rendered it almost too horrible for human eyes.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
10  Many times I considered Satan as the fitter emblem of my condition, for often, like him, when I viewed the bliss of my protectors, the bitter gall of envy rose within me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
11  I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was entering on a new scene of life, undisturbed by any care or bitter recollection.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
12  He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
13  This advice, although good, was totally inapplicable to my case; I should have been the first to hide my grief and console my friends if remorse had not mingled its bitterness, and terror its alarm, with my other sensations.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
14  By the quantity of provision which I had consumed, I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
15  The prospect did not move me to fear; yet when I thought of my beloved Elizabeth, of her tears and endless sorrow, when she should find her lover so barbarously snatched from her, tears, the first I had shed for many months, streamed from my eyes, and I resolved not to fall before my enemy without a bitter struggle.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
16  The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, confirmed in an especial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
17  But when I discovered that he, the author at once of my existence and of its unspeakable torments, dared to hope for happiness, that while he accumulated wretchedness and despair upon me he sought his own enjoyment in feelings and passions from the indulgence of which I was forever barred, then impotent envy and bitter indignation filled me with an insatiable thirst for vengeance.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
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