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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 At length the high white steeple of the town met my eyes.
2 I was nourished with high thoughts of honour and devotion.
3 The wind was high, and the waves continually threatened the safety of my little skiff.
4 That hour passed, the sun mounted high in the heavens, but the cottagers did not appear.
5 My own spirits were high, and I bounded along with feelings of unbridled joy and hilarity.
6 The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and of beautiful forms.
7 The high and snowy mountains were its immediate boundaries, but I saw no more ruined castles and fertile fields.
8 We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible.
9 I learned that the possessions most esteemed by your fellow creatures were high and unsullied descent united with riches.
10 This frequently took place, but a high wind quickly dried the earth, and the season became far more pleasant than it had been.
11 It was a place fitted for such a work, being hardly more than a rock whose high sides were continually beaten upon by the waves.
12 The young girl spoke in high and enthusiastic terms of her mother, who, born in freedom, spurned the bondage to which she was now reduced.
13 If I were engaged in any high undertaking or design, fraught with extensive utility to my fellow creatures, then could I live to fulfil it.
14 But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.
15 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.
16 I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages.
17 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.
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