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1  I had certainly acted imprudently.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
2  In the meantime he told me that my friend had certainly not many hours to live.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
3  The sun does not more certainly shine in the heavens than that which I now affirm is true.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
4  We were told this when young, and taught to look forward to it as an event that would certainly take place.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
5  Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 2
6  I have hired a vessel and am occupied in collecting my sailors; those whom I have already engaged appear to be men on whom I can depend and are certainly possessed of dauntless courage.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 2
7  They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
8  His manners in private were even more mild and attractive than in public, for there was a certain dignity in his mien during his lecture which in his own house was replaced by the greatest affability and kindness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
9  If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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10  She looked forward to our union with placid contentment, not unmingled with a little fear, which past misfortunes had impressed, that what now appeared certain and tangible happiness might soon dissipate into an airy dream and leave no trace but deep and everlasting regret.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22