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1  "I expected this reception," said the daemon.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
2  This expectation will now be the consolation of your father.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
3  The being finished speaking and fixed his looks upon me in the expectation of a reply.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
4  I crept into my hovel and remained in silent expectation of the accustomed hour when the family arose.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
5  These feelings are transitory; each day of expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
6  We left Edinburgh in a week, passing through Coupar, St. Andrew's, and along the banks of the Tay, to Perth, where our friend expected us.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
7  Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
8  My cousin," replied I, "it is decided as you may have expected; all judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
9  I threw the door forcibly open, as children are accustomed to do when they expect a spectre to stand in waiting for them on the other side; but nothing appeared.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
10  The winter has been dreadfully severe, but the spring promises well, and it is considered as a remarkably early season, so that perhaps I may sail sooner than I expected.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 2
11  That he should live to be an instrument of mischief disturbs me; in other respects, this hour, when I momentarily expect my release, is the only happy one which I have enjoyed for several years.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
12  You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
13  But I was in no mood to laugh and talk with strangers or enter into their feelings or plans with the good humour expected from a guest; and accordingly I told Clerval that I wished to make the tour of Scotland alone.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
14  The month of May had already commenced, and I expected the letter daily which was to fix the date of my departure, when Henry proposed a pedestrian tour in the environs of Ingolstadt, that I might bid a personal farewell to the country I had so long inhabited.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
15  I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
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.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 3
17  Safie resolved to remain with her father until the moment of his departure, before which time the Turk renewed his promise that she should be united to his deliverer; and Felix remained with them in expectation of that event; and in the meantime he enjoyed the society of the Arabian, who exhibited towards him the simplest and tenderest affection.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
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