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1  I never saw a man in so wretched a condition.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Letter 4
2  Miserable himself that he may render no other wretched, he ought to die.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
3  During the whole of this wretched mockery of justice I suffered living torture.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
4  Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
5  These events have affected me, God knows how deeply; but I am not so wretched as you are.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
6  Thus I might proclaim myself a madman, but not revoke the sentence passed upon my wretched victim.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
7  With new courage, therefore, I pressed on, and in two days arrived at a wretched hamlet on the seashore.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
8  If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 12
9  Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20
10  The picture appeared a vast and dim scene of evil, and I foresaw obscurely that I was destined to become the most wretched of human beings.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
11  She most of all," said Ernest, "requires consolation; she accused herself of having caused the death of my brother, and that made her very wretched.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
12  Hear him not; call on the names of William, Justine, Clerval, Elizabeth, my father, and of the wretched Victor, and thrust your sword into his heart.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24
13  I learned from Werter's imaginations despondency and gloom, but Plutarch taught me high thoughts; he elevated me above the wretched sphere of my own reflections, to admire and love the heroes of past ages.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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14  But I was doomed to live and in two months found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by jailers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21
15  I afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age and unfitness for so long a journey, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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16  He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 15
17  The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
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