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1  It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
2  But my toils now drew near a close, and in two months from this time I reached the environs of Geneva.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
3  The Greeks wept for joy when they beheld the Mediterranean from the hills of Asia, and hailed with rapture the boundary of their toils.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
4  After a slight repose, during which the spirits of the dead hovered round and instigated me to toil and revenge, I prepared for my journey.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
5  After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
6  I was like a wild beast that had broken the toils, destroying the objects that obstructed me and ranging through the wood with a stag-like swiftness.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 16
7  Sometimes I could not prevail on myself to enter my laboratory for several days, and at other times I toiled day and night in order to complete my work.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
8  Yet do not suppose, because I complain a little or because I can conceive a consolation for my toils which I may never know, that I am wavering in my resolutions.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 2
9  But my enthusiasm was checked by my anxiety, and I appeared rather like one doomed by slavery to toil in the mines, or any other unwholesome trade than an artist occupied by his favourite employment.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
10  Once, after the poor animals that conveyed me had with incredible toil gained the summit of a sloping ice mountain, and one, sinking under his fatigue, died, I viewed the expanse before me with anguish, when suddenly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
11  Felix rejected his offers with contempt, yet when he saw the lovely Safie, who was allowed to visit her father and who by her gestures expressed her lively gratitude, the youth could not help owning to his own mind that the captive possessed a treasure which would fully reward his toil and hazard.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 14