CONFINEMENT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Our conversations are not always confined to his own history and misfortunes.
2 This was the commencement of a nervous fever which confined me for several months.
3 My cheek had grown pale with study, and my person had become emaciated with confinement.
4 But my plan was unsettled, and I wandered many hours round the confines of the town, uncertain what path I should pursue.
5 He then related that, the morning on which the murder of poor William had been discovered, Justine had been taken ill, and confined to her bed for several days.
6 When I was thirteen years of age we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon; the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn.
7 They remained confined for five months before the trial took place, the result of which deprived them of their fortune and condemned them to a perpetual exile from their native country.
8 If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.
9 We were in the most imminent peril, but as we could only remain passive, my chief attention was occupied by my unfortunate guest whose illness increased in such a degree that he was entirely confined to his bed.
10 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.