CITY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Clerval did not like it so well as Oxford, for the antiquity of the latter city was more pleasing to him.
2 London was our present point of rest; we determined to remain several months in this wonderful and celebrated city.
3 I visited Edinburgh with languid eyes and mind; and yet that city might have interested the most unfortunate being.
4 This city had remained faithful to him, after the whole nation had forsaken his cause to join the standard of Parliament and liberty.
5 If these feelings had not found an imaginary gratification, the appearance of the city had yet in itself sufficient beauty to obtain our admiration.
6 We possessed a house in Geneva, and a campagne on Belrive, the eastern shore of the lake, at the distance of rather more than a league from the city.
7 As we entered this city our minds were filled with the remembrance of the events that had been transacted there more than a century and a half before.
8 I first became acquainted with him on board a whale vessel; finding that he was unemployed in this city, I easily engaged him to assist in my enterprise.
9 It was completely dark when I arrived in the environs of Geneva; the gates of the town were already shut; and I was obliged to pass the night at Secheron, a village at the distance of half a league from the city.
10 The memory of that unfortunate king and his companions, the amiable Falkland, the insolent Goring, his queen, and son, gave a peculiar interest to every part of the city which they might be supposed to have inhabited.
11 A few months before my arrival they had lived in a large and luxurious city called Paris, surrounded by friends and possessed of every enjoyment which virtue, refinement of intellect, or taste, accompanied by a moderate fortune, could afford.
12 A few days after, the Turk entered his daughter's apartment and told her hastily that he had reason to believe that his residence at Leghorn had been divulged and that he should speedily be delivered up to the French government; he had consequently hired a vessel to convey him to Constantinople, for which city he should sail in a few hours.