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1  The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
2  The plot of Felix was quickly discovered, and De Lacey and Agatha were thrown into prison.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14
3  You were thrown, by some surprising accident, on this shore, renowned for its hospitality, seized immediately, and charged with murder.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
4  The shutters had been thrown back, and with a sensation of horror not to be described, I saw at the open window a figure the most hideous and abhorred.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
5  She had been moved from the posture in which I had first beheld her, and now, as she lay, her head upon her arm and a handkerchief thrown across her face and neck, I might have supposed her asleep.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 23
6  Their first supposition was that it was the corpse of some person who had been drowned and was thrown on shore by the waves, but on examination they found that the clothes were not wet and even that the body was not then cold.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
7  In the Sorrows of Werter, besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed and so many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a never-ending source of speculation and astonishment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15