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1  When she had finished, she gave the guitar to Agatha, who at first declined it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
2  Perpetual fretting at length threw Madame Moritz into a decline, which at first increased her irritability, but she is now at peace for ever.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
3  Some hours passed thus; but by degrees, as the sun declined towards the horizon, the wind died away into a gentle breeze and the sea became free from breakers.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
4  A change indeed had taken place in me; my health, which had hitherto declined, was now much restored; and my spirits, when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise, rose proportionably.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18
5  Before I depart I will give them to you; they will prove the truth of my tale; but at present, as the sun is already far declined, I shall only have time to repeat the substance of them to you.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
6  Clerval, whose eyes and feelings were always quick in discerning the sensations of others, declined the subject, alleging, in excuse, his total ignorance; and the conversation took a more general turn.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
7  Frankenstein has daily declined in health; a feverish fire still glimmers in his eyes, but he is exhausted, and when suddenly roused to any exertion, he speedily sinks again into apparent lifelessness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
8  He passed his younger days perpetually occupied by the affairs of his country; a variety of circumstances had prevented his marrying early, nor was it until the decline of life that he became a husband and the father of a family.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1