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 Current Search - conjecture in Frankenstein
1  For some time I was lost in conjecture as to the cause of this, but yesterday an idea struck me, and if it is well founded, I conjure you to avow it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
2  This account rather alarmed us, and we continued to search for him until night fell, when Elizabeth conjectured that he might have returned to the house.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
3  He sat up much longer, conversing with his father, and by the frequent repetition of her name I conjectured that their lovely guest was the subject of their conversation.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
4  But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
5  He could not any longer delay his departure; but as his journey to London might be followed, even sooner than he now conjectured, by his longer voyage, he entreated me to bestow as much of my society on him as I could spare.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
6  I know," continued the unhappy victim, "how heavily and fatally this one circumstance weighs against me, but I have no power of explaining it; and when I have expressed my utter ignorance, I am only left to conjecture concerning the probabilities by which it might have been placed in my pocket.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
7  But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 1