PROGRESS in Classic Quotes

1  Waldman expressed the most heartfelt exultation in my progress.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

2  As I applied so closely, it may be easily conceived that my progress was rapid.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

3  I remained, while the storm lasted, watching its progress with curiosity and delight.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

4  The storm appeared to approach rapidly, and, on landing, I ascended a low hill, that I might observe its progress.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

5  Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

6  He asked me several questions concerning my progress in the different branches of science appertaining to natural philosophy.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

7  We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4

8  Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

9  A ground sea was heard; the thunder of its progress, as the waters rolled and swelled beneath me, became every moment more ominous and terrific.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24

10  You minutely described in these papers every step you took in the progress of your work; this history was mingled with accounts of domestic occurrences.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

11  But in giving an account of the progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred in the beginning of the month of August of the same year.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

12  At first I wished to hurry on, for I longed to console and sympathise with my loved and sorrowing friends; but when I drew near my native town, I slackened my progress.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

13  I was aware also that I should often lose all self-command, all capacity of hiding the harrowing sensations that would possess me during the progress of my unearthly occupation.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

14  I revolved in my mind the events which I had until now sought to forget: the whole train of my progress toward the creation; the appearance of the works of my own hands at my bedside; its departure.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

15  Yes, he had followed me in my travels; he had loitered in forests, hid himself in caves, or taken refuge in wide and desert heaths; and he now came to mark my progress and claim the fulfilment of my promise.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

16  His design was to visit India, in the belief that he had in his knowledge of its various languages, and in the views he had taken of its society, the means of materially assisting the progress of European colonization and trade.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

17  We passed a fortnight in these perambulations: my health and spirits had long been restored, and they gained additional strength from the salubrious air I breathed, the natural incidents of our progress, and the conversation of my friend.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6