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1  I started up and resolved to return to Geneva with all possible speed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
2  As I said this I suddenly beheld the figure of a man, at some distance, advancing towards me with superhuman speed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10
3  Some weeks before this period I had procured a sledge and dogs and thus traversed the snows with inconceivable speed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
4  Suddenly the broad disk of the moon arose and shone full upon his ghastly and distorted shape as he fled with more than mortal speed.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
5  I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
6  He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11
7  As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature, that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4