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1  The murderous mark of the fiend's grasp was on her neck, and the breath had ceased to issue from her lips.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  He had apparently been strangled, for there was no sign of any violence except the black mark of fingers on his neck.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
3  Towards morning I was possessed by a kind of nightmare; I felt the fiend's grasp in my neck and could not free myself from it; groans and cries rang in my ears.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
4  She had been moved from the posture in which I had first beheld her, and now, as she lay, her head upon her arm and a handkerchief thrown across her face and neck, I might have supposed her asleep.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
5  About five in the morning I discovered my lovely boy, whom the night before I had seen blooming and active in health, stretched on the grass livid and motionless; the print of the murder's finger was on his neck.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
6  Sometimes I entreated my attendants to assist me in the destruction of the fiend by whom I was tormented; and at others I felt the fingers of the monster already grasping my neck, and screamed aloud with agony and terror.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
7  The picture was then produced which the servant had found in her pocket; and when Elizabeth, in a faltering voice, proved that it was the same which, an hour before the child had been missed, she had placed round his neck, a murmur of horror and indignation filled the court.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8