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1  About this time we retired to our house at Belrive.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
2  But he was silent and presently retired to his cabin.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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3  As night came on, Agatha and the Arabian retired early.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13
4  It came from the room into which Elizabeth had retired.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
5  I broke from the house angry and disturbed and retired to meditate on some other mode of action.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
6  They retired and I turned towards my friend, but he was sunk in languor and almost deprived of life.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
7  Often, after the rest of the family had retired for the night, I took the boat and passed many hours upon the water.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
8  During this conversation I had retired to a corner of the prison room, where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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9  When I was about fifteen years old we had retired to our house near Belrive, when we witnessed a most violent and terrible thunderstorm.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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10  It was evening when I arrived, and I retired to a hiding-place among the fields that surround it to meditate in what manner I should apply to you.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
11  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
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12  I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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13  Having thus arranged my dwelling and carpeted it with clean straw, I retired, for I saw the figure of a man at a distance, and I remembered too well my treatment the night before to trust myself in his power.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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14  I spoke; I told them to retire and consider of what had been said, that I would not lead them farther north if they strenuously desired the contrary, but that I hoped that, with reflection, their courage would return.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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15  Such a man has a double existence: he may suffer misery and be overwhelmed by disappointments, yet when he has retired into himself, he will be like a celestial spirit that has a halo around him, within whose circle no grief or folly ventures.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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16  It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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17  I passed an hour in this state of mind, when suddenly I reflected how fearful the combat which I momentarily expected would be to my wife, and I earnestly entreated her to retire, resolving not to join her until I had obtained some knowledge as to the situation of my enemy.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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