MEAN in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
Buy the book from Amazon
 Current Search - mean in Frankenstein
1  By the by, I mean to lecture you a little upon their account myself.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
2  I read merely to understand their meaning, and they well repaid my labours.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
3  In the mean time I worked on, and my labour was already considerably advanced.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
4  A servant in Geneva does not mean the same thing as a servant in France and England.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
5  Overjoyed at this discovery, he hastened to the house, which was situated in a mean street near the Reuss.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
6  I do not know what you mean," replied my brother, in accents of wonder, "but to us the discovery we have made completes our misery.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
7  Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
8  Agatha, the ever-gentle Agatha, kissed the hands of the lovely stranger, and pointing to her brother, made signs which appeared to me to mean that he had been sorrowful until she came.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
9  Soon after, however, Felix approached with another man; I was surprised, as I knew that he had not quitted the cottage that morning, and waited anxiously to discover from his discourse the meaning of these unusual appearances.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
10  This benefit was fully repaid; Justine was the most grateful little creature in the world: I do not mean that she made any professions I never heard one pass her lips, but you could see by her eyes that she almost adored her protectress.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6