TAKEN in Classic Quotes

1  Since you left us, but one change has taken place in our little household.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

2  One paternal kind precaution he had taken to ensure my having a companion.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

3  Little alteration, except the growth of our dear children, has taken place since you left us.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

4  The winter advanced, and an entire revolution of the seasons had taken place since I awoke into life.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

5  But it is this gloom which appears to have taken so strong a hold of your mind that I wish to dissipate.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

6  Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal himself, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

7  In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

8  Soon after my arrival in the hovel I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15

9  The days now passed as peaceably as before, with the sole alteration that joy had taken place of sadness in the countenances of my friends.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 13

10  He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4

11  He then related that, the morning on which the murder of poor William had been discovered, Justine had been taken ill, and confined to her bed for several days.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

12  For some days I haunted the spot where these scenes had taken place, sometimes wishing to see you, sometimes resolved to quit the world and its miseries forever.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16

13  But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents, and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2

14  A change indeed had taken place in me; my health, which had hitherto declined, was now much restored; and my spirits, when unchecked by the memory of my unhappy promise, rose proportionably.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 18

15  I knew well therefore what would be my father's feelings, but I could not tear my thoughts from my employment, loathsome in itself, but which had taken an irresistible hold of my imagination.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

16  I acceded with pleasure to this proposition: I was fond of exercise, and Clerval had always been my favourite companion in the ramble of this nature that I had taken among the scenes of my native country.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

17  A great fall of snow had taken place the night before, and the fields were of one uniform white; the appearance was disconsolate, and I found my feet chilled by the cold damp substance that covered the ground.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 11