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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 By degrees, after the morning's dawn, sleep came.
2 By degrees I made a discovery of still greater moment.
3 He excites at once my admiration and my pity to an astonishing degree.
4 By slow degrees he recovered and ate a little soup, which restored him wonderfully.
5 By degrees the calm and heavenly scene restored me, and I continued my journey towards Geneva.
6 By very slow degrees, and with frequent relapses that alarmed and grieved my friend, I recovered.
7 By degrees, I remember, a stronger light pressed upon my nerves, so that I was obliged to shut my eyes.
8 Melancholy followed, but by degrees I gained a clear conception of my miseries and situation and was then released from my prison.
9 I was unwilling to quit the sight of those that remained to me, and above all, I desired to see my sweet Elizabeth in some degree consoled.
10 This reading had puzzled me extremely at first, but by degrees I discovered that he uttered many of the same sounds when he read as when he talked.
11 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.
12 My eyes became accustomed to the light and to perceive objects in their right forms; I distinguished the insect from the herb, and by degrees, one herb from another.
13 I ought to have familiarized the old De Lacey to me, and by degrees to have discovered myself to the rest of his family, when they should have been prepared for my approach.
14 I replied that I could not answer with any degree of certainty, for the ice had not broken until near midnight, and the traveller might have arrived at a place of safety before that time; but of this I could not judge.
15 It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century; but while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was, to a great degree, self-taught with regard to my favourite studies.
16 We have already reached a very high latitude; but it is the height of summer, and although not so warm as in England, the southern gales, which blow us speedily towards those shores which I so ardently desire to attain, breathe a degree of renovating warmth which I had not expected.
17 There was a show of gratitude and worship in his attachment to my mother, differing wholly from the doting fondness of age, for it was inspired by reverence for her virtues and a desire to be the means of, in some degree, recompensing her for the sorrows she had endured, but which gave inexpressible grace to his behaviour to her.
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