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1  My mother had much desired to have a daughter, but I continued their single offspring.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
2  I was unable to remain for a single instant in the same place; I jumped over the chairs, clapped my hands, and laughed aloud.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
3  I did not know the names of the towns that I was to pass through, nor could I ask information from a single human being; but I did not despair.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
4  A fiend had snatched from me every hope of future happiness; no creature had ever been so miserable as I was; so frightful an event is single in the history of man.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
5  I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
6  I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
7  The son confirmed his father's account, but when Daniel Nugent was called he swore positively that just before the fall of his companion, he saw a boat, with a single man in it, at a short distance from the shore; and as far as he could judge by the light of a few stars, it was the same boat in which I had just landed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21