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1  I tried, therefore, to dress my food in the same manner, placing it on the live embers.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
2  We shall make our bed of dried leaves; the sun will shine on us as on man and will ripen our food.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
3  The young woman arranged the cottage and prepared the food, and the youth departed after the first meal.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
4  Their food, as I afterwards found, was coarse, but it was wholesome; and they procured a sufficiency of it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
5  I awoke exhausted, and finding that it was already night, I crept forth from my hiding-place, and went in search of food.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
6  My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
7  When they had retired to rest, if there was any moon or the night was star-light, I went into the woods and collected my own food and fuel for the cottage.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
8  I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
9  In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
10  Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
11  Their nourishment consisted entirely of the vegetables of their garden and the milk of one cow, which gave very little during the winter, when its masters could scarcely procure food to support it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
12  It was about seven in the morning, and I longed to obtain food and shelter; at length I perceived a small hut, on a rising ground, which had doubtless been built for the convenience of some shepherd.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
13  They often, I believe, suffered the pangs of hunger very poignantly, especially the two younger cottagers, for several times they placed food before the old man when they reserved none for themselves.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
14  One night during my accustomed visit to the neighbouring wood where I collected my own food and brought home firing for my protectors, I found on the ground a leathern portmanteau containing several articles of dress and some books.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
15  When night came again I found, with pleasure, that the fire gave light as well as heat and that the discovery of this element was useful to me in my food, for I found some of the offals that the travellers had left had been roasted, and tasted much more savoury than the berries I gathered from the trees.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
16  He raised her and smiled with such kindness and affection that I felt sensations of a peculiar and overpowering nature; they were a mixture of pain and pleasure, such as I had never before experienced, either from hunger or cold, warmth or food; and I withdrew from the window, unable to bear these emotions.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
17  The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, confirmed in an especial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
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