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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 Suddenly a heavy storm of rain descended.
2 Presently a breeze dissipated the cloud, and I descended upon the glacier.
3 The snows descended on my head, and I saw the print of his huge step on the white plain.
4 I walked and, I believe, descended, but I presently found a great alteration in my sensations.
5 The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms.
6 We had agreed to descend the Rhine in a boat from Strasbourg to Rotterdam, whence we might take shipping for London.
7 The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep.
8 I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.
9 He was descended from a good family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals.
10 The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exultation, I with a heavy heart and depressed spirits.
11 The sun is yet high in the heavens; before it descends to hide itself behind your snowy precipices and illuminate another world, you will have heard my story and can decide.
12 Beyond Cologne we descended to the plains of Holland; and we resolved to post the remainder of our way, for the wind was contrary and the stream of the river was too gentle to aid us.
13 The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.
14 The sun had far descended, and I still sat on the shore, satisfying my appetite, which had become ravenous, with an oaten cake, when I saw a fishing-boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a packet; it contained letters from Geneva, and one from Clerval entreating me to join him.