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1  Madam Mina, it is on account of the dead I come.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV
2  We Transylvanian nobles love not to think that our bones may lie amongst the common dead.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
3  I could not pity her, for I knew now what had become of her child, and she was better dead.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV
4  She was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever; and I could not believe that she was dead.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  I am no longer young; and my heart, through weary years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
6  There is an additional cause in that poor old Mr. Swales was found dead this morning on our seat, his neck being broken.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  There was no need to think them dead, for their stertorous breathing and the acrid smell of laudanum in the room left no doubt as to their condition.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
8  I was dazed and stupid with pain and terror and weakness, but the sound of the nightingale seemed like the voice of my dead mother come back to comfort me.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI
9  He was looking intently at the face of the dead woman, raising the eyelids and looking at the eyes, and once more opening the lips and examining the teeth.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  I told him that that must be good-bye, as the coffin had to be prepared; so he went back and took her dead hand in his and kissed it, and bent over and kissed her forehead.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  It seemed to be as much an affront to the dead as it would have been to have stripped off her clothing in her sleep whilst living; I actually took hold of his hand to stop him.
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ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  By the courtesy of the chief boatman, I was, as your correspondent, permitted to climb on deck, and was one of a small group who saw the dead seaman whilst actually lashed to the wheel.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
13  In the hall I met Quincey Morris, with a telegram for Arthur telling him that Mrs. Westenra was dead; that Lucy also had been ill, but was now going on better; and that Van Helsing and I were with her.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
14  The wind fell away entirely during the evening, and at midnight there was a dead calm, a sultry heat, and that prevailing intensity which, on the approach of thunder, affects persons of a sensitive nature.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
15  Outrageous as it was to open a leaden coffin, to see if a woman dead nearly a week were really dead, it now seemed the height of folly to open the tomb again, when we knew, from the evidence of our own eyesight, that the coffin was empty.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV
16  Already, however, the legal tongues are wagging, and one young law student is loudly asserting that the rights of the owner are already completely sacrificed, his property being held in contravention of the statutes of mortmain, since the tiller, as emblemship, if not proof, of delegated possession, is held in a dead hand.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
17  It seems only yesterday that the last entry was made, and yet how much between then, in Whitby and all the world before me, Jonathan away and no news of him; and now, married to Jonathan, Jonathan a solicitor, a partner, rich, master of his business, Mr. Hawkins dead and buried, and Jonathan with another attack that may harm him.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII
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