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1  The idea of this visit was torture to me, yet I could not refuse.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
2  During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
3  I do refuse it," I replied; "and no torture shall ever extort a consent from me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 17
4  Years will pass, and you will have visitings of despair and yet be tortured by hope.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
5  I shall ascend my funeral pile triumphantly and exult in the agony of the torturing flames.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
6  From the tortures of my own heart, I turned to contemplate the deep and voiceless grief of my Elizabeth.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
7  Waldman inflicted torture when he praised, with kindness and warmth, the astonishing progress I had made in the sciences.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
8  I knew that I was preparing for myself a deadly torture, but I was the slave, not the master, of an impulse which I detested yet could not disobey.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
9  The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
10  I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted around me.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
11  I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19
12  My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner, but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
13  This winter has been passed most miserably, tortured as I have been by anxious suspense; yet I hope to see peace in your countenance and to find that your heart is not totally void of comfort and tranquillity.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 22
14  Now all was blasted; instead of that serenity of conscience which allowed me to look back upon the past with self-satisfaction, and from thence to gather promise of new hopes, I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures such as no language can describe.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9