STILL in Classic Quotes

1  The path of its departure still is free.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

2  Whether he had died or still lingered in the dungeons of Austria was not known.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

3  I dreaded to behold this monster, but I feared still more that Henry should see him.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

4  Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

5  The thunder ceased; but the rain still continued, and the scene was enveloped in an impenetrable darkness.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

6  He had partially unveiled the face of Nature, but her immortal lineaments were still a wonder and a mystery.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

7  I was still cold when under one of the trees I found a huge cloak, with which I covered myself, and sat down upon the ground.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

8  The moon had disappeared from the night, and again, with a lessened form, showed itself, while I still remained in the forest.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11

9  Sometimes, on the very brink of certainty, I failed; yet still I clung to the hope which the next day or the next hour might realize.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

10  The starry sky, the sea, and every sight afforded by these wonderful regions seem still to have the power of elevating his soul from earth.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4

11  I then reflected, and the thought made me shiver, that the creature whom I had left in my apartment might still be there, alive and walking about.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

12  I had an obscure feeling that all was not over and that he would still commit some signal crime, which by its enormity should almost efface the recollection of the past.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9

13  But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 2

14  My mother was dead, but we had still duties which we ought to perform; we must continue our course with the rest and learn to think ourselves fortunate whilst one remains whom the spoiler has not seized.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

15  Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

16  The dissecting room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials; and often did my human nature turn with loathing from my occupation, whilst, still urged on by an eagerness which perpetually increased, I brought my work near to a conclusion.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

17  It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2