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Citations:gardens

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * They went then till they came to the Delectable Mountains, which mountains belong to the Lord of that hill of which we have spoken before; so they went up to the mountains, to behold the gardens and orchards, the vineyards and fountains of water; where also they drank and washed themselves, and did freely eat of the vineyards.
 * But, being a little strengthened, and better able to bear their sickness, they walked on their way, and came yet nearer and nearer, where were orchards, vineyards, and gardens, and their gates opened into the highway.
 * Now, as they came up to these places, behold the gardener stood in the way, to whom the Pilgrims said, Whose goodly vineyards and gardens are these?

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The vegetables in the gardens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the windows of some of the cottages, allured my appetite.

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Citations:gibe

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary's gibe, to meet and grapple with him.

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Citations:gilded

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My spirits were elevated by the enchanting appearance of nature; the past was blotted from my memory, the present was tranquil, and the future gilded by bright rays of hope and anticipations of joy."

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Citations:giver

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.

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Citations:glacier

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.
 * I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it.
 * Oh, surely the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man than those who pile the glacier or retire to the inaccessible peaks of the mountains of our own country." Clerval!

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Citations:glimmering

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead and found a passage to life, aided only by one glimmering and seemingly ineffectual light.

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Citations:glimpse

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * This letter revived in my memory what I had before forgotten, the threat of the fiend — "I WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT!" Such was my sentence, and on that night would the daemon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And being, from the emotion he had undergone, or the fatigues of the day, or his glimpse of the Invisible World, or the dull conversation of the Ghost, or the lateness of the hour, much in need of repose; went straight to bed, without undressing, and fell asleep upon the instant.

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Citations:glittering

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds — they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace.

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Citations:globe

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * There — for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators — there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
 * I shall quit your vessel on the ice raft which brought me thither and shall seek the most northern extremity of the globe; I shall collect my funeral pile and consume to ashes this miserable frame, that its remains may afford no light to any curious and unhallowed wretch who would create such another as I have been.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Some people laughed to see the alteration in him, but he let them laugh, and little heeded them; for he was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset; and knowing that such as these would be blind anyway, he thought it quite as well that they should wrinkle up their eyes in grins, as have the malady in less attractive forms.

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Citations:gnashed

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When I thought of him I gnashed my teeth, my eyes became inflamed, and I ardently wished to extinguish that life which I had so thoughtlessly bestowed.

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Citations:gnashing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The feelings of kindness and gentleness which I had entertained but a few moments before gave place to hellish rage and gnashing of teeth.

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Citations:grades

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He might dissect, anatomize, and give names; but, not to speak of a final cause, causes in their secondary and tertiary grades were utterly unknown to him.

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Citations:grapple

 * 2021, Yi-Ling Liu, Sci-Fi Writer or Prophet? The Hyperreal Life of Chen Qiufan, Wired.com (9 March 2021);
 * But unlike Liu Cixin, the lionized author of The Three Body Problem, who grapples with the faraway grandeur of outer space, Chen is drawn more to the interior lives of characters struggling to anchor themselves in a moment of accelerated change—much the way nearly anyone in China struggles to anchor themselves today.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary's gibe, to meet and grapple with him.

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * His Word gives me no encouragement to believe; yea, himself hath shut me up in this iron cage; nor can all the men in the world let me out. O eternity, eternity! how shall I grapple with the misery that I must meet with in eternity!

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Citations:gratified

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * You may easily imagine that I was much gratified by the offered communication, yet I could not endure that he should renew his grief by a recital of his misfortunes.

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Citations:gratifying

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.

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Citations:grave-worms

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.

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Citations:greedily

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?
 * I greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd's breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the latter, however, I did not like.

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Citations:grievously

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Here, therefore, they wallowed for a time, being grievously bedaubed with the dirt; and Christian, because of the burden that was on his back, began to sink in the mire.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.

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Citations:grin

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * A grin was on the face of the monster; he seemed to jeer, as with his fiendish finger he pointed towards the corpse of my wife.

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Citations:gruff

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Krempe was a little squat man with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The ancient tower of a church, whose gruff old bell was always peeping slily down at Scrooge out of a Gothic window in the wall, became invisible, and struck the hours and quarters in the clouds, with tremulous vibrations afterwards as if its teeth were chattering in its frozen head up there.

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Citations:guards

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Oh, surely the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man than those who pile the glacier or retire to the inaccessible peaks of the mountains of our own country." Clerval!

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Citations:guessing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He soon perceived that I disliked the subject; but not guessing the real cause, he attributed my feelings to modesty, and changed the subject from my improvement, to the science itself, with a desire, as I evidently saw, of drawing me out.

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Citations:guidance

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Under the guidance of my new preceptors I entered with the greatest diligence into the search of the philosopher's stone and the elixir of life; but the latter soon obtained my undivided attention.

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Citations:guiding

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary's gibe, to meet and grapple with him.
 * When will my guiding spirit, in conducting me to the daemon, allow me the rest I so much desire; or must I die, and he yet live?

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But if you were free to-day, to-morrow, yesterday, can even I believe that you would choose a dowerless girl — you who, in your very confidence with her, weigh everything by Gain: or, choosing her, if for a moment you were false enough to your one guiding principle to do so, do I not know that your repentance and regret would surely follow? I do; and I release you.

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Citations:guitar

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "It was on one of these days, when my cottagers periodically rested from labour — the old man played on his guitar, and the children listened to him — that I observed the countenance of Felix was melancholy beyond expression; he sighed frequently, and once his father paused in his music, and I conjectured by his manner that he inquired the cause of his son's sorrow.
 * "The next morning Felix went out to his work, and after the usual occupations of Agatha were finished, the Arabian sat at the feet of the old man, and taking his guitar, played some airs so entrancingly beautiful that they at once drew tears of sorrow and delight from my eyes.
 * When his children had departed, he took up his guitar and played several mournful but sweet airs, more sweet and mournful than I had ever heard him play before.

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Citations:gurgling

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * At one time the moon, which had before been clear, was suddenly overspread by a thick cloud, and I took advantage of the moment of darkness and cast my basket into the sea; I listened to the gurgling sound as it sank and then sailed away from the spot.

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Citations:habitable

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * There — for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators — there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.

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Citations:hall

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub — a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He did pause, with a moment's irresolution, before he shut the door; and he did look cautiously behind it first, as if he half expected to be terrified with the sight of Marley's pigtail sticking out into the hall.
 * Nor was it more retentive of its ancient state, within; for entering the dreary hall, and glancing through the open doors of many rooms, they found them poorly furnished, cold, and vast.
 * A terrible voice in the hall cried, "Bring down Master Scrooge's box, there!" and in the hall appeared the schoolmaster himself, who glared on Master Scrooge with a ferocious condescension, and threw him into a dreadful state of mind by shaking hands with him.

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Citations:harbour

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * As I turned the promontory I perceived a small neat town and a good harbour, which I entered, my heart bounding with joy at my unexpected escape.
 * It was a very dark night, as the moon had not yet risen; they did not land at the harbour, but, as they had been accustomed, at a creek about two miles below.
 * Besides, they observed that it appeared that I had brought the body from another place, and it was likely that as I did not appear to know the shore, I might have put into the harbour ignorant of the distance of the town of —  —  from the place where I had deposited the corpse.

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Citations:harnessed

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So they did; and when they came there, they harnessed him from head to foot with what was of proof, lest, perhaps, he should meet with assaults in the way.
 * To go out harnessed, and to be sure to take a shield with us; for it was for want of that, that he that laid so lustily at Leviathan could not make him yield; for, indeed, if that be wanting, he fears us not at all.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He had carried off their store of winter food, and placing it in a sledge, to draw which he had seized on a numerous drove of trained dogs, he had harnessed them, and the same night, to the joy of the horror-struck villagers, had pursued his journey across the sea in a direction that led to no land; and they conjectured that he must speedily be destroyed by the breaking of the ice or frozen by the eternal frosts.

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Citations:harrowing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Strange and harrowing must be his story, frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it — thus!
 * I was aware also that I should often lose all self-command, all capacity of hiding the harrowing sensations that would possess me during the progress of my unearthly occupation.

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Citations:hasty

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "The pleasant sunshine and the pure air of day restored me to some degree of tranquillity; and when I considered what had passed at the cottage, I could not help believing that I had been too hasty in my conclusions.

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Citations:heart-rending

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Elizabeth's heart-rending eloquence failed to move the judges from their settled conviction in the criminality of the saintly sufferer.

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Citations:heavenly

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Yes, but with much shame and detestation: "Truly, if I had been mindful of that country from whence I came out, I might have had opportunity to have returned; but now I desire a better country, that is, an heavenly." [Heb. 11:15,16]
 * The trials that those men do meet withal, That are obedient to the heavenly call, Are manifold, and suited to the flesh, And come, and come, and come again afresh; That now, or sometime else, we by them may Be taken, overcome, and cast away.
 * But, by your leave, heavenly knowledge of these is the gift of God; no man attaineth to them by human industry, or only by the talk of them.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
 * I was often tempted, when all was at peace around me, and I the only unquiet thing that wandered restless in a scene so beautiful and heavenly — if I except some bat, or the frogs, whose harsh and interrupted croaking was heard only when I approached the shore — often, I say, I was tempted to plunge into the silent lake, that the waters might close over me and my calamities forever.
 * She was thinner and had lost much of that heavenly vivacity that had before charmed me; but her gentleness and soft looks of compassion made her a more fit companion for one blasted and miserable as I was.

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Citations:hero

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I did not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opinions of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely understanding it.

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Citations:hers

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Elizabeth also wept and was unhappy, but hers also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides but cannot tarnish its brightness.
 * I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.

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Citations:hides

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Elizabeth also wept and was unhappy, but hers also was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides but cannot tarnish its brightness.

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Citations:highlands

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I packed up my chemical instruments and the materials I had collected, resolving to finish my labours in some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland.
 * With this resolution I traversed the northern highlands and fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours.

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Citations:historical

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It was an historical subject, painted at my father's desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father.

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Citations:honoured

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * My honoured and well-beloved brother, Faithful, I am glad that I have overtaken you; and that God has so tempered our spirits, that we can walk as companions in this so pleasant a path.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She paused, weeping, and then continued, "I thought with horror, my sweet lady, that you should believe your Justine, whom your blessed aunt had so highly honoured, and whom you loved, was a creature capable of a crime which none but the devil himself could have perpetrated.

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Citations:horror-struck

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He had carried off their store of winter food, and placing it in a sledge, to draw which he had seized on a numerous drove of trained dogs, he had harnessed them, and the same night, to the joy of the horror-struck villagers, had pursued his journey across the sea in a direction that led to no land; and they conjectured that he must speedily be destroyed by the breaking of the ice or frozen by the eternal frosts.

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Citations:houses

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * The hypocritical Pharisees were also of this religion; long prayers were their pretence, but to get widows' houses was their intent; and greater damnation was from God their judgment.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I was innocent; that could easily be proved; accordingly I followed my conductor in silence and was led to one of the best houses in the town.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The fog came pouring in at every chink and keyhole, and was so dense without, that although the court was of the narrowest, the houses opposite were mere phantoms.
 * They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.
 * So did the room, the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night, and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mad delight to the boys to see it come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into artificial little snow-storms.

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Citations:hovels

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The peasants were shut up in their hovels, and only a few of the most hardy ventured forth to seize the animals whom starvation had forced from their hiding-places to seek for prey.

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Citations:hovered

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.

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Citations:hue

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Delighted and surprised, I embraced her, but as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death; her features appeared to change, and I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms; a shroud enveloped her form, and I saw the grave-worms crawling in the folds of the flannel.

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Citations:humid

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Soft tears again bedewed my cheeks, and I even raised my humid eyes with thankfulness towards the blessed sun, which bestowed such joy upon me.

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Citations:hundred

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * True; and she may be to us both caution and example; caution, that we should shun her sin; or a sign of what judgment will overtake such as shall not be prevented by this caution; so Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, with the two hundred and fifty men that perished in their sin, did also become a sign or example to others to beware.
 * I further thought thus: If a man runs a hundred pounds into the shopkeeper's debt, and after that shall pay for all that he shall fetch; yet, if this old debt stands still in the book uncrossed, for that the shopkeeper may sue him, and cast him into prison till he shall pay the debt.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * We were, as we believed, many hundred miles from any land; but this apparition seemed to denote that it was not, in reality, so distant as we had supposed.
 * If any being felt emotions of benevolence towards me, I should return them a hundred and a hundredfold; for that one creature's sake I would make peace with the whole kind!

a hundred

 * I had already been three months in prison, and although I was still weak and in continual danger of a relapse, I was obliged to travel nearly a hundred miles to the country town where the court was held.
 * 2006 November 3, Susan Allport (guest), “Getting the skinny on fat”, Talk of the Nation: Science Friday, National Public Radio:
 * That has really soared over the past a [sic] hundred years or so.
 * 2008 January 21, John Eggerton (interviewee), “The FCC's New Rules for Media Ownership”, Justice Talking, National Public Radio:
 * [I]t applies to only the top twenty markets in removing the ban, whereas in two thousand three the FCC was essentially proposing removing it let's say in the top a [sic] hundred and seventy markets.
 * 2009 October 13, Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, “In Israel, Kibbutz Life Undergoes Reinvention”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
 * Hanatonwas founded in the nineteen eighties, but from the original a [sic] hundred and fourteen members, by two thousand and six, only eleven were left.
 * 2009 October 21, John Ydstie, “U.S. To Order Bailout Firms To Cut Exec Pay”, All Things Considered, National Public Radio:
 * Overall, the top a [sic] hundred and seventy-five executives at the companies
 * 2011, Kory Stamper, “What ‘Ironic’ Really Means”, “Ask the Editor”, Merriam-Webster:
 * Ironic has been used vaguely at best for a good a [sic] hundred and fifty years.

oh nine hundred (not followed by 'hours')

 * 1987, Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers, Penguin (ISBN 9781101500422), page 63:
 * “At oh-nine-hundred muster for sick call and see the doctor.” Jenkins' jaw muscles twitched. He answered slowly, “I don't need any pills—sir. I'll get by.” “Oh-nine-hundred. That's an order.” He left. Jenkins started his monotonous chant again.
 * 2002, W.E.B. Griffin, Under Fire, Penguin (ISBN 9781440639036), page 282:
 * [...] and the Post-Dispatch wanted to know when would be a convenient time for them to send a reporter and a photographer to take some pictures. “Tomorrow morning at nine.” “Oh nine hundred, aye, aye, sir.”
 * 2013, Sandra McDonald, The Stars Down Under, Tor Books (ISBN 9781466845831):
 * “You'll be meeting with Captain Kuvik at oh-nine-hundred. He meets with every new instructor, nothing to worry about there. Until then I'll take you on the guided tour. Officer training is down the street, in their own building with their own faculty...

oh nine hundred hours

 * 2016, Sophia McDougall, Space Hostages, HarperCollins (ISBN 9780062294043):
 * “The last Space Elevator capsule departs Earth Station San Diego at oh nine hundred hours.” It was already half past seven. My stomach felt so tight, I wondered whether the dove had gotten its diagnosis wrong.
 * 2018, John Bemelmans Marciano, The No-Good Nine (ISBN 9781101997840), page 220:
 * Please report to the TOWER at oh nine hundred hours tomorrow morning. Repeat: ALL HUMAN children must report to the Tower at oh nine hundred hours.

oh ten hundred (not followed by 'hours')

 * 1999, J. D. Robb, Conspiracy in Death, Penguin (ISBN 9781101203705):
 * "And you have that report done, in triplicate, and on my desk by oh ten hundred. Stand back," she added, very quietly now. It took ten humming seconds with their eyes warring before Bowers dropped her gaze and shifted aside.
 * 2010, David Baldacci, Deliver Us from Evil, Grand Central Publishing (ISBN 9780446576253):
 * “Private tour starts at oh-ten hundred. His past experience shows he'll travel with a minimum of four and a max of six muscle, holsters and Glocks. They hit the entrance. The tour guide is our plant.
 * 2014, Emma Pass, ACID, Delacorte Press (ISBN 9780385372411), page 86:
 * “Come over to the clinic in the morning, at oh-ten hundred.”

oh three hundred thirty

 * 2015, Peter Halsey Sherwood, The Murdery Delicious High Seas Horror (ISBN 9781503522039), page 54:
 * If the boys were awakened by the light of the flames, the final deed must have occurred sometime around oh-three-hundred-thirty hours.
 * 2017, James M. Myers, Slaughterhouse Rules (SHR Publishing, ISBN 9780998281896):
 * Every morning between 03:30 hours and 04:30 hours (oh three-hundred thirty and oh four-hundred thirty military time) we were abruptly awakened by senior ranking boot camp recruits. They would begin each day by banging on steel garbage cans with broom handles, ...
 * 2017, Phyllis Ann Karr, The Fanciers & Realizers MEGAPACK: The Complete Steampunk Series (Wildside Press LLC, ISBN 9781479428762), page 464:
 * But at the best estimate we have as of now...between oh three hundred thirty and oh three hundred forty-five hours this morning.” “Oh, God! Oh, dear God! If I'd only stuck around a-another half an hour, I m-might have been there to...”

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Citations:ice-rock

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The sledge was still visible, nor did I again lose sight of it except at the moments when for a short time some ice-rock concealed it with its intervening crags.

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Citations:ices

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.
 * He had escaped me, and I must commence a destructive and almost endless journey across the mountainous ices of the ocean, amidst cold that few of the inhabitants could long endure and which I, the native of a genial and sunny climate, could not hope to survive.

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Citations:ignorantly

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * ...the want of this is the cause why so few understand the need of faith, and the necessity of a work of grace in their soul, in order to eternal life; but ignorantly live in the works of the law, by which a man can by no means obtain the kingdom of heaven.
 * Yea, thou also art ignorant of the true effects of saving faith in this righteousness of Christ, which is, to bow and win over the heart to God in Christ, to love his name, his word, ways, and people, and not as thou ignorantly imaginest.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.

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Citations:illuminated

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * A flash of lightning illuminated the object, and discovered its shape plainly to me; its gigantic stature, and the deformity of its aspect more hideous than belongs to humanity, instantly informed me that it was the wretch, the filthy daemon, to whom I had given life.
 * At first his countenance was illuminated with pleasure, but as he continued, thoughtfulness and sadness succeeded; at length, laying aside the instrument, he sat absorbed in reflection.

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Citations:illuminating

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It was echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of lightning dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake, making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant every thing seemed of a pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered itself from the preceding flash.

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Citations:imaginations

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Come, truth, although in swaddling clouts, I find, Informs the judgement, rectifies the mind; Pleases the understanding, makes the will Submit; the memory too it doth fill With what doth our imaginations please; Likewise it tends our troubles to appease.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.
 * Has this mind, so replete with ideas, imaginations fanciful and magnificent, which formed a world, whose existence depended on the life of its creator; — has this mind perished?

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Citations:imbibed

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?
 * Suddenly, as I gazed on him, an idea seized me that this little creature was unprejudiced and had lived too short a time to have imbibed a horror of deformity.

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Citations:imbued

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.

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Citations:immeasurable

 * 1963, & Oswald White Bear Fredericks, Book of the Hopi, 1978,, New York City, page 3.
 * The first world was Tokpela [Endless Space]. But first, they say, there was only the Creator, Taiowa. All else was endless space. There was no beginning and no end, no time, no shape, no life. Just an inmeasurable void that had its beginning and end, time, shape, and life in the mind of Taiowa the Creator.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.

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Citations:impassive

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Follow me; I seek the everlasting ices of the north, where you will feel the misery of cold and frost, to which I am impassive.

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Citations:impatient

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But he is generally melancholy and despairing, and sometimes he gnashes his teeth, as if impatient of the weight of woes that oppresses him.
 * I checked, therefore, my impatient thirst for sympathy and was silent when I would have given the world to have confided the fatal secret.

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Citations:impediments

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.

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Citations:impenetrable

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Sometimes I endeavoured to gain from Frankenstein the particulars of his creature's formation, but on this point he was impenetrable.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It was not in impenetrable shadow as the other objects in the yard were, but had a dismal light about it, like a bad lobster in a dark cellar.

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Citations:imperatively

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I have resolved every night, when I am not imperatively occupied by my duties, to record, as nearly as possible in his own words, what he has related during the day.

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Citations:imperious

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * By the utmost self-violence I curbed the imperious voice of wretchedness, which sometimes desired to declare itself to the whole world, and my manners were calmer and more composed than they had ever been since my journey to the sea of ice.

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Citations:important

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * At that age I became acquainted with the celebrated poets of our own country; but it was only when it had ceased to be in my power to derive its most important benefits from such a conviction that I perceived the necessity of becoming acquainted with more languages than that of my native country.

 * 1998,, Heisei, 2010, Éditions des Régionalismes, Cressé, p. 11
 * Se passèt lo 15 d'agost de 2078. Me'n brembi encoèra. Adara que't disi acò, n'ei pas important que sigui estat en agost, n'ei pas important tapauc lo dia de la setmana.

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Citations:impressions

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.

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Citations:improbable

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I remembered also the nervous fever with which I had been seized just at the time that I dated my creation, and which would give an air of delirium to a tale otherwise so utterly improbable.

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Citations:inaccessible

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain.
 * His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations; a creature who could exist in the ice caves of the glaciers and hide himself from pursuit among the ridges of inaccessible precipices was a being possessing faculties it would be vain to cope with.
 * Oh, surely the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man than those who pile the glacier or retire to the inaccessible peaks of the mountains of our own country." Clerval!

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Citations:inarticulate

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Sometimes I wished to express my sensations in my own mode, but the uncouth and inarticulate sounds which broke from me frightened me into silence again.

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Citations:inciting

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "As yet I looked upon crime as a distant evil, benevolence and generosity were ever present before me, inciting within me a desire to become an actor in the busy scene where so many admirable qualities were called forth and displayed.

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Citations:inconceivable

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.

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Citations:increasing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.

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Citations:indelible

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Six years had elapsed, passed in a dream but for one indelible trace, and I stood in the same place where I had last embraced my father before my departure for Ingolstadt.
 * Everything is related in them which bears reference to my accursed origin; the whole detail of that series of disgusting circumstances which produced it is set in view; the minutest description of my odious and loathsome person is given, in language which painted your own horrors and rendered mine indelible.

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Citations:indicated

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.

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Citations:indignant

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.

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Citations:inequalities

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice.
 * I exchanged my land-sledge for one fashioned for the inequalities of the frozen ocean, and purchasing a plentiful stock of provisions, I departed from land.

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Citations:inferior

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!

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Citations:infinity

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They produced in me an infinity of new images and feelings, that sometimes raised me to ecstasy, but more frequently sunk me into the lowest dejection.

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Citations:inflicted

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.
 * "I cannot describe to you the agony that these reflections inflicted upon me; I tried to dispel them, but sorrow only increased with knowledge.

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Citations:influence

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Chance — or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father's door — led me first to M.
 * The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.
 * Then again the kindly influence ceased to act — I found myself fettered again to grief and indulging in all the misery of reflection.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Though he looked the phantom through and through, and saw it standing before him; though he felt the chilling influence of its death-cold eyes; and marked the very texture of the folded kerchief bound about its head and chin, which wrapper he had not observed before; he was still incredulous, and fought against his senses.
 * Not a latent echo in the house, not a squeak and scuffle from the mice behind the panelling, not a drip from the half-thawed water-spout in the dull yard behind, not a sigh among the leafless boughs of one despondent poplar, not the idle swinging of an empty store-house door, no, not a clicking in the fire, but fell upon the heart of Scrooge with a softening influence, and gave a freer passage to his tears.
 * In the struggle, if that can be called a struggle in which the Ghost with no visible resistance on its own part was undisturbed by any effort of its adversary, Scrooge observed that its light was burning high and bright; and dimly connecting that with its influence over him, he seized the extinguisher-cap, and by a sudden action pressed it down upon its head.

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Citations:inform

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?

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Citations:inhabits

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Oh, surely the spirit that inhabits and guards this place has a soul more in harmony with man than those who pile the glacier or retire to the inaccessible peaks of the mountains of our own country." Clerval!

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Citations:inmate

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They consulted their village priest, and the result was that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents' house — my more than sister — the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures.

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Citations:inquisitive

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "My thoughts now became more active, and I longed to discover the motives and feelings of these lovely creatures; I was inquisitive to know why Felix appeared so miserable and Agatha so sad.

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Citations:insanity

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I well knew that if any other had communicated such a relation to me, I should have looked upon it as the ravings of insanity.
 * "As the night advanced, a fierce wind arose from the woods and quickly dispersed the clouds that had loitered in the heavens; the blast tore along like a mighty avalanche and produced a kind of insanity in my spirits that burst all bounds of reason and reflection.
 * Memory brought madness with it, and when I thought of what had passed, a real insanity possessed me; sometimes I was furious and burnt with rage, sometimes low and despondent.

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Citations:instance

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * They, moreover, gave an instance of what they affirmed, and that was, he had stripped himself of his glory, that he might do this for the poor; and that they heard him say and affirm, "that he would not dwell in the mountain of Zion alone." They said, moreover, that he had made many pilgrims princes, though by nature they were beggars born, and their original had been the dunghill.
 * For instance, if a man doth delight to talk of the history or the mystery of things; or if a man doth love to talk of miracles, wonders, or signs, where shall he find things recorded so delightful, and so sweetly penned, as in the Holy Scripture?

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.

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Citations:instigated

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.
 * He paused, looking on me with wonder, and again turning towards the lifeless form of his creator, he seemed to forget my presence, and every feature and gesture seemed instigated by the wildest rage of some uncontrollable passion.

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Citations:intercept

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I know not whether the fiend possessed the same advantages, but I found that, as before I had daily lost ground in the pursuit, I now gained on him, so much so that when I first saw the ocean he was but one day's journey in advance, and I hoped to intercept him before he should reach the beach.
 * Warm tears filled my eyes, which I hastily wiped away, that they might not intercept the view I had of the daemon; but still my sight was dimmed by the burning drops, until, giving way to the emotions that oppressed me, I wept aloud.

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Citations:internal

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Were we among the tamer scenes of nature I might fear to encounter your unbelief, perhaps your ridicule; but many things will appear possible in these wild and mysterious regions which would provoke the laughter of those unacquainted with the ever-varied powers of nature; nor can I doubt but that my tale conveys in its series internal evidence of the truth of the events of which it is composed."
 * My internal being was in a state of insurrection and turmoil; I felt that order would thence arise, but I had no power to produce it.

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Citations:interpreted

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * On the evening previous to her being brought to my home, my mother had said playfully, "I have a pretty present for my Victor — tomorrow he shall have it." And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine — mine to protect, love, and cherish.

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Citations:interrupt

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I understand your feeling," continued he, perceiving that I wished to interrupt him; "but you are mistaken, my friend, if thus you will allow me to name you; nothing can alter my destiny; listen to my history, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is determined."
 * Be happy, my friend; and if you obey me in this one request, remain satisfied that nothing on earth will have the power to interrupt my tranquillity.

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Citations:intervening

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The sledge was still visible, nor did I again lose sight of it except at the moments when for a short time some ice-rock concealed it with its intervening crags.

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Citations:intolerable

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now the substance of these laws this rebel has broken, not only in thought, (which is not to be borne), but also in word and deed; which must therefore needs be intolerable.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome and almost intolerable.
 * Sometimes I could cope with the sullen despair that overwhelmed me, but sometimes the whirlwind passions of my soul drove me to seek, by bodily exercise and by change of place, some relief from my intolerable sensations.
 * But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be — a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.

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Citations:intricacies

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.

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Citations:introduction

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The patriarchal lives of my protectors caused these impressions to take a firm hold on my mind; perhaps, if my first introduction to humanity had been made by a young soldier, burning for glory and slaughter, I should have been imbued with different sensations.
 * Clerval desired the intercourse of the men of genius and talent who flourished at this time, but this was with me a secondary object; I was principally occupied with the means of obtaining the information necessary for the completion of my promise and quickly availed myself of the letters of introduction that I had brought with me, addressed to the most distinguished natural philosophers.

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Citations:invigorated

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My courage and perseverance were invigorated by these scoffing words; I resolved not to fail in my purpose, and calling on heaven to support me, I continued with unabated fervour to traverse immense deserts, until the ocean appeared at a distance and formed the utmost boundary of the horizon.

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Citations:invitation

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * ...this is a seasonable sight; it came opportunely to us after the invitation which Demas gave us to come over to view the Hill Lucre; and had we gone over, as he desired us, and as thou wast inclining to do, my brother, we had, for aught I know, been made ourselves like this woman, a spectacle for those that shall come after to behold.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Clerval eagerly desired to accept this invitation, and I, although I abhorred society, wished to view again mountains and streams and all the wondrous works with which Nature adorns her chosen dwelling-places.

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Citations:invulnerable

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Wealth was an inferior object, but what glory would attend the discovery if I could banish disease from the human frame and render man invulnerable to any but a violent death!
 * "I gazed on my victim, and my heart swelled with exultation and hellish triumph; clapping my hands, I exclaimed, 'I too can create desolation; my enemy is not invulnerable; this death will carry despair to him, and a thousand other miseries shall torment and destroy him.'

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Citations:irradiated

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Even now, as I commence my task, his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in animation, while the lineaments of his face are irradiated by the soul within.

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Citations:irritability

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Perpetual fretting at length threw Madame Moritz into a decline, which at first increased her irritability, but she is now at peace for ever.

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Citations:islands

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I have endured toil and misery; I left Switzerland with you; I crept along the shores of the Rhine, among its willow islands and over the summits of its hills.
 * September 9th, the ice began to move, and roarings like thunder were heard at a distance as the islands split and cracked in every direction.

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Citations:issuing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I carefully traced the windings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory.

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Citations:joints

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * But by this place Christian went without much danger, whereat I somewhat wondered; but I have learnt since, that PAGAN has been dead many a day; and as for the other, though he be yet alive, he is, by reason of age, and also of the many shrewd brushes that he met with in his younger days, grown so crazy and stiff in his joints, that he can now do little more than sit in his cave's mouth, grinning at pilgrims as they go by, and biting his nails because he cannot come at them.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Heaped up on the floor, to form a kind of throne, were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking-pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, barrels of oysters, red-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch, that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam.

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Citations:judgement

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Come, truth, although in swaddling clouts, I find, Informs the judgement, rectifies the mind; Pleases the understanding, makes the will Submit; the memory too it doth fill With what doth our imaginations please; Likewise it tends our troubles to appease.
 * He answered, Sir, I perceive by the book in my hand, that I am condemned to die, and after that to come to judgement [Heb. 9:27]; and I find that I am not willing to do the first [Job 16:21], nor able to do the second. [Ezek. 22:14]
 * The man answered, Because I fear that this burden is upon my back will sink me lower than the grave, and I shall fall into Tophet. [Isa. 30:33] And, Sir, if I be not fit to go to prison, I am not fit, I am sure, to go to judgement, and from thence to execution; and the thoughts of these things make me cry.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The conscience of the woman was troubled; she began to think that the deaths of her favourites was a judgement from heaven to chastise her partiality.

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Citations:jutting

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In a thousand spots the traces of the winter avalanche may be perceived, where trees lie broken and strewed on the ground, some entirely destroyed, others bent, leaning upon the jutting rocks of the mountain or transversely upon other trees.

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Citations:keel

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Clouds hid the moon, everything was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat as its keel cut through the waves; the murmur lulled me, and in a short time I slept soundly.

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Citations:kinsman

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenances, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you — he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!

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Citations:kneeling

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It was an historical subject, painted at my father's desire, and represented Caroline Beaufort in an agony of despair, kneeling by the coffin of her dead father.

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Citations:known

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Yes, Christian, I heard that he followed you till he came at the Slough of Despond, where, as some said, he fell in; but he would not be known to have so done; but I am sure he was soundly bedabbled with that kind of dirt.
 * He is the son of one Say-well; he dwelt in Prating Row; and is known of all that are acquainted with him, by the name of Talkative in Prating Row; and notwithstanding his fine tongue, he is but a sorry fellow.
 * Had I known him no more than you, I might perhaps have thought of him, as, at the first, you did; yea, had he received this report at their hands only that are enemies to religion, I should have thought it had been a slander, — a lot that often falls from bad men's mouths upon good men's names and professions; but all these things, yea, and a great many more as bad, of my own knowledge, I can prove him guilty of.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She was alarmed by this account and passed several hours in looking for him, when the gates of Geneva were shut, and she was forced to remain several hours of the night in a barn belonging to a cottage, being unwilling to call up the inhabitants, to whom she was well known.
 * Several witnesses were called who had known her for many years, and they spoke well of her; but fear and hatred of the crime of which they supposed her guilty rendered them timorous and unwilling to come forward.
 * The more I saw of them, the greater became my desire to claim their protection and kindness; my heart yearned to be known and loved by these amiable creatures; to see their sweet looks directed towards me with affection was the utmost limit of my ambition.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The crisp leaves of holly, mistletoe, and ivy reflected back the light, as if so many little mirrors had been scattered there; and such a mighty blaze went roaring up the chimney, as that dull petrification of a hearth had never known in Scrooge's time, or Marley's, or for many and many a winter season gone.
 * And now two smaller Cratchits, boy and girl, came tearing in, screaming that outside the baker's they had smelt the goose, and known it for their own; and basking in luxurious thoughts of sage and onion, these young Cratchits danced about the table, and exalted Master Peter Cratchit to the skies, while he (not proud, although his collars nearly choked him) blew the fire, until the slow potatoes bubbling up, knocked loudly at the saucepan-lid to be let out and peeled.
 * They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's.

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Citations:labourers

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Look at that castle which overhangs yon precipice; and that also on the island, almost concealed amongst the foliage of those lovely trees; and now that group of labourers coming from among their vines; and that village half hid in the recess of the mountain.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * In the main street, at the corner of the court, some labourers were repairing the gas-pipes, and had lighted a great fire in a brazier, round which a party of ragged men and boys were gathered: warming their hands and winking their eyes before the blaze in rapture.

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Citations:laid

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * CHR. I seek an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away [1 Pet. 1:4], and it is laid up in heaven, and safe there [Heb. 11:16], to be bestowed, at the time appointed, on them that diligently seek it.
 * At last, when every man started back for fear of the armed men, Christian saw a man of a very stout countenance come up to the man that sat there to write, saying, Set down my name, Sir: the which when he had done, he saw the man draw his sword, and put a helmet upon his head, and rush toward the door upon the armed men, who laid upon him with deadly force; but the man, not at all discouraged, fell to cutting and hacking most fiercely.
 * MAN. I left off to watch and be sober. I laid the reins, upon the neck of my lusts; I sinned against the light of the Word and the goodness of God; I have grieved the Spirit, and he is gone; I tempted the devil, and he is come to me; I have provoked God to anger, and he has left me: I have so hardened my heart, that I cannot repent.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "I wish it was a little heavier judgment," replied the woman; "and it should have been, you may depend upon it, if I could have laid my hands on anything else.
 * Then the two young Cratchits got upon his knees and laid, each child a little cheek, against his face, as if they said, "Don't mind it, father.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * That is indeed a thing to be lamented; for what things so worthy of the use of the tongue and mouth of men on earth as are the things of the God of heaven?

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In this emigration I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident and knew not how to reproduce it.

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Citations:land-sledge

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I exchanged my land-sledge for one fashioned for the inequalities of the frozen ocean, and purchasing a plentiful stock of provisions, I departed from land.

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 * 1)  A state of the body or mind caused by exhaustion or disease and characterized by a languid or weary feeling; lassitude;  an instance of this.
 * 2)  Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.
 * 1)  Dullness, sluggishness; lack of vigour; stagnation.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It was as the ass and the lap-dog; yet surely the gentle ass whose intentions were affectionate, although his manners were rude, deserved better treatment than blows and execration.

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Citations:lashes

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * For a few moments I gazed with delight on her dark eyes, fringed by deep lashes, and her lovely lips; but presently my rage returned; I remembered that I was forever deprived of the delights that such beautiful creatures could bestow and that she whose resemblance I contemplated would, in regarding me, have changed that air of divine benignity to one expressive of disgust and affright.
 * Sometimes they were the expressive eyes of Henry, languishing in death, the dark orbs nearly covered by the lids and the long black lashes that fringed them; sometimes it was the watery, clouded eyes of the monster, as I first saw them in my chamber at Ingolstadt.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And yet I should have dearly liked, I own, to have touched her lips; to have questioned her, that she might have opened them; to have looked upon the lashes of her downcast eyes, and never raised a blush; to have let loose waves of hair, an inch of which would be a keepsake beyond price: in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * There, therefore, they lay for some time, and were made the objects of any man's sport, or malice, or revenge, the great one of the fair laughing still at all that befell them.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I was scarcely hid when a young girl came running towards the spot where I was concealed, laughing, as if she ran from someone in sport.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * To hear Scrooge expending all the earnestness of his nature on such subjects, in a most extraordinary voice between laughing and crying; and to see his heightened and excited face; would have been a surprise to his business friends in the city, indeed.
 * But now a knocking at the door was heard, and such a rush immediately ensued that she with laughing face and plundered dress was borne towards it the centre of a flushed and boisterous group, just in time to greet the father, who came home attended by a man laden with Christmas toys and presents.
 * For, the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball — better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest — laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong.

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Citations:lawgivers

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Induced by these feelings, I was of course led to admire peaceable lawgivers, Numa, Solon, and Lycurgus, in preference to Romulus and Theseus.

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Citations:lean

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * No sooner did that idea cross my imagination, than I became convinced of its truth; my teeth chattered, and I was forced to lean against a tree for support.
 * The first part of this deposition did not in the least interest me, but when the mark of the fingers was mentioned I remembered the murder of my brother and felt myself extremely agitated; my limbs trembled, and a mist came over my eyes, which obliged me to lean on a chair for support.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's household should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the streets, stirred up to-morrow's pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied out to buy the beef.

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Citations:lecture

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He began his lecture by a recapitulation of the history of chemistry and the various improvements made by different men of learning, pronouncing with fervour the names of the most distinguished discoverers.
 * His manners in private were even more mild and attractive than in public, for there was a certain dignity in his mien during his lecture which in his own house was replaced by the greatest affability and kindness.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * So saying, he stepped aside and wrote down a list of several books treating of natural philosophy which he desired me to procure, and dismissed me after mentioning that in the beginning of the following week he intended to commence a course of lectures upon natural philosophy in its general relations, and that M.

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Citations:leisure

 * 1485 – Thomas Malory. Le Morte Darthur, Book X, Chapter xxxviii, leaf 237v
 * And thenne he kyste he and dyd to her plesaunce as it pleased them bothe at tymes and leysers
 * "And then he kissed her, and did to her pleasaunce as it pleased them both at times and leisures. "

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The interval was, consequently, spent in inaction; his grief only became more deep and rankling when he had leisure for reflection, and at length it took so fast hold of his mind that at the end of three months he lay on a bed of sickness, incapable of any exertion.
 * He intended to leave his daughter under the care of a confidential servant, to follow at her leisure with the greater part of his property, which had not yet arrived at Leghorn.

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Citations:lieutenant

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.

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Citations:lightnings

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * For a short space of time I remained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which pursued its noisy way beneath.

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Citations:limb

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I started from my sleep with horror; a cold dew covered my forehead, my teeth chattered, and every limb became convulsed; when, by the dim and yellow light of the moon, as it forced its way through the window shutters, I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created.

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Citations:lineaments

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Even now, as I commence my task, his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in animation, while the lineaments of his face are irradiated by the soul within.

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Citations:lingered

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The little patches of snow which yet lingered on the northern sides of the mountains, the lakes, and the dashing of the rocky streams were all familiar and dear sights to me.

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Citations:littleness

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They elevated me from all littleness of feeling, and although they did not remove my grief, they subdued and tranquillized it.

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Citations:lullaby

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.

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Citations:lulled

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Clouds hid the moon, everything was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat as its keel cut through the waves; the murmur lulled me, and in a short time I slept soundly.

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Citations:lulling

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The same lulling sounds acted as a lullaby to my too keen sensations; when I placed my head upon my pillow, sleep crept over me; I felt it as it came and blessed the giver of oblivion.

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Citations:lustrous

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Even now, as I commence my task, his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in animation, while the lineaments of his face are irradiated by the soul within.
 * His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.

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Citations:madly

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.

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Citations:madman

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * A thousand times rather would I have confessed myself guilty of the crime ascribed to Justine, but I was absent when it was committed, and such a declaration would have been considered as the ravings of a madman and would not have exculpated her who suffered through me.

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Citations:magic

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Not that, like a magic scene, it all opened upon me at once: the information I had obtained was of a nature rather to direct my endeavours so soon as I should point them towards the object of my search than to exhibit that object already accomplished.
 * But, as if possessed of magic powers, the monster had blinded me to his real intentions; and when I thought that I had prepared only my own death, I hastened that of a far dearer victim.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now I saw in my dream, that at the end of this valley lay blood, bones, ashes, and mangled bodies of men, even of pilgrims that had gone this way formerly; and while I was musing what should be the reason, I espied a little before me a cave, where two giants, POPE and PAGAN, dwelt in old time; by whose power and tyranny the men whose bones, blood, and ashes, &c., lay there, were cruelly put to death.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The remains of the half-finished creature, whom I had destroyed, lay scattered on the floor, and I almost felt as if I had mangled the living flesh of a human being.

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Citations:manuscript

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * This manuscript will doubtless afford you the greatest pleasure; but to me, who know him, and who hear it from his own lips — with what interest and sympathy shall I read it in some future day!

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Citations:massacred

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Such as the peasant enjoys when his family have been massacred before his eyes, his cottage burnt, his lands laid waste, and he is turned adrift, homeless, penniless, and alone, but free.

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Citations:masses

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * We, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to encounter in the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And now, without a word of warning from the Ghost, they stood upon a bleak and desert moor, where monstrous masses of rude stone were cast about, as though it were the burial-place of giants; and water spread itself wheresoever it listed, or would have done so, but for the frost that held it prisoner; and nothing grew but moss and furze, and coarse rank grass.
 * Secrets that few would like to scrutinise were bred and hidden in mountains of unseemly rags, masses of corrupted fat, and sepulchres of bones.

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Citations:materially

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * His design was to visit India, in the belief that he had in his knowledge of its various languages, and in the views he had taken of its society, the means of materially assisting the progress of European colonization and trade.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * 'Well, yet I am not fully satisfied, That this your book will stand, when soundly tried.' Why, what's the matter? 'It is dark.' What though? 'But it is feigned.' What of that? I trow?
 * They told him, That custom, it being of so long a standing as above a thousand years, would, doubtless, now be admitted as a thing legal by any impartial judge; and besides, said they, if we get into the way, what's matter which way we get in? if we are in, we are in; thou art but in the way, who, as we perceive, came in at the gate; and we are also in the way, that came tumbling over the wall; wherein, now, is thy condition better than ours?
 * Now, when he was got up to the top of the hill, there came two men running to meet him amain; the name of the one was Timorous, and of the other, Mistrust; to whom Christian said, Sirs, what's the matter?

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
 * Pursuing these reflections, I thought that if I could bestow animation upon lifeless matter, I might in process of time (although I now found it impossible) renew life where death had apparently devoted the body to corruption.
 * "For that matter," replied the old woman, "if you mean about the gentleman you murdered, I believe that it were better for you if you were dead, for I fancy it will go hard with you!

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Such a bustle ensued that you might have thought a goose the rarest of all birds; a feathered phenomenon, to which a black swan was a matter of course — and in truth it was something very like it in that house.
 * "Why, what was the matter with him?" asked a third, taking a vast quantity of snuff out of a very large snuff-box. "I thought he'd never die."

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Citations:meandering

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.

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Citations:measure

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Also here he in great measure lost his senses, so that he could neither remember nor orderly talk of any of those sweet refreshments that he had met with in the way of his pilgrimage.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But I fear, from what you have yourself described to be his properties, that this will prove impracticable; and thus, while every proper measure is pursued, you should make up your mind to disappointment."

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Citations:mechanical

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * At such moments vengeance, that burned within me, died in my heart, and I pursued my path towards the destruction of the daemon more as a task enjoined by heaven, as the mechanical impulse of some power of which I was unconscious, than as the ardent desire of my soul.

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Citations:meditate

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "It was evening when I arrived, and I retired to a hiding-place among the fields that surround it to meditate in what manner I should apply to you.

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Citations:menaces

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.
 * But I discovered no trace of him and was beginning to conjecture that some fortunate chance had intervened to prevent the execution of his menaces when suddenly I heard a shrill and dreadful scream.

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Citations:mentioning

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * So saying, he stepped aside and wrote down a list of several books treating of natural philosophy which he desired me to procure, and dismissed me after mentioning that in the beginning of the following week he intended to commence a course of lectures upon natural philosophy in its general relations, and that M.
 * "You have probably waited impatiently for a letter to fix the date of your return to us; and I was at first tempted to write only a few lines, merely mentioning the day on which I should expect you.

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Citations:mightier

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The cottage of my protectors had been the only school in which I had studied human nature, but this book developed new and mightier scenes of action.

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Citations:mile

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge and guided the dogs.
 * I indeed perceptibly gained on it, and when, after nearly two days' journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * ...my friend, the sorrows of death hath compassed me about; I shall not see the land that flows with milk and honey; and with that a great darkness and horror fell upon Christian, so that he could not see before him.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd's breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the latter, however, I did not like.
 * The vegetables in the gardens, the milk and cheese that I saw placed at the windows of some of the cottages, allured my appetite.
 * Their nourishment consisted entirely of the vegetables of their garden and the milk of one cow, which gave very little during the winter, when its masters could scarcely procure food to support it.

 * 1381, Pegge Cook. Recipes, page 114, quoted in 1962, and Sherman M. Kuhn (editors), , Ann Arbor, Mich.:, ISBN 978-0-472-01044-8, page 1242, entry "dorrẹ̅":
 * For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons Nym wyn  toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
 * circa 1430 (reprinted 1888), Thomas Austin (editor), Two Fifteenth-century Cookery-books. Harleian ms. 279 (ab. 1430), & Harl. ms. 4016 (ab. 1450), with Extracts from Ashmole ms. 1429, Laud ms. 553, & Douce ms. 55, London: N. Trübner & Co. for the, volume I (Original Series; 91), OCLC 374760 , page 11:
 * Soupes dorye. — Take gode almaunde mylke caste þher-to Safroun an Salt

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Citations:ministered

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I retired to rest at night; my slumbers, as it were, waited on and ministered to by the assemblance of grand shapes which I had contemplated during the day.

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Citations:mirrored

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Frankenstein, your son, your kinsman, your early, much-loved friend; he who would spend each vital drop of blood for your sakes, who has no thought nor sense of joy except as it is mirrored also in your dear countenances, who would fill the air with blessings and spend his life in serving you — he bids you weep, to shed countless tears; happy beyond his hopes, if thus inexorable fate be satisfied, and if the destruction pause before the peace of the grave have succeeded to your sad torments!

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Citations:missile

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * For, the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball — better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest — laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong.

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Citations:mists

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The rain was pouring in torrents, and thick mists hid the summits of the mountains, so that I even saw not the faces of those mighty friends.
 * I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the opposite mountains, whose summits were hid in the uniform clouds, while rain poured from the dark sky and added to the melancholy impression I received from the objects around me.
 * They made many signs which I did not comprehend, but I saw that her presence diffused gladness through the cottage, dispelling their sorrow as the sun dissipates the morning mists.

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Citations:motions

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When my father returned from Milan, he found playing with me in the hall of our villa a child fairer than pictured cherub — a creature who seemed to shed radiance from her looks and whose form and motions were lighter than the chamois of the hills.
 * During the morning I attended the motions of the cottagers, and when they were dispersed in various occupations, I slept; the remainder of the day was spent in observing my friends.
 * I may be absent a month or two; but do not interfere with my motions, I entreat you; leave me to peace and solitude for a short time; and when I return, I hope it will be with a lighter heart, more congenial to your own temper."

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Citations:mountain-top

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They congregated round me; the unstained snowy mountain-top, the glittering pinnacle, the pine woods, and ragged bare ravine, the eagle, soaring amidst the clouds — they all gathered round me and bade me be at peace.

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Citations:mountainous

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * When the morning was up, they had him to the top of the house, and bid him look south; so he did: and behold, at a great distance, he saw a most pleasant mountainous country, beautified with woods, vineyards, fruits of all sorts, flowers also, with springs and fountains, very delectable to behold.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He had escaped me, and I must commence a destructive and almost endless journey across the mountainous ices of the ocean, amidst cold that few of the inhabitants could long endure and which I, the native of a genial and sunny climate, could not hope to survive.

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Citations:mournfully

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "What a place is this that you inhabit, my son!" said he, looking mournfully at the barred windows and wretched appearance of the room.

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Citations:mummy

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * As he hung over the coffin, his face was concealed by long locks of ragged hair; but one vast hand was extended, in colour and apparent texture like that of a mummy.

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Citations:muscles

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Although I possessed the capacity of bestowing animation, yet to prepare a frame for the reception of it, with all its intricacies of fibres, muscles, and veins, still remained a work of inconceivable difficulty and labour.
 * His yellow skin scarcely covered the work of muscles and arteries beneath; his hair was of a lustrous black, and flowing; his teeth of a pearly whiteness; but these luxuriances only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes, that seemed almost of the same colour as the dun-white sockets in which they were set, his shrivelled complexion and straight black lips.
 * I had gazed on him while unfinished; he was ugly then, but when those muscles and joints were rendered capable of motion, it became a thing such as even Dante could not have conceived.

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Citations:musty

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In what desert land have you lived, where no one was kind enough to inform you that these fancies which you have so greedily imbibed are a thousand years old and as musty as they are ancient?

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Citations:national

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * There — for with your leave, my sister, I will put some trust in preceding navigators — there snow and frost are banished; and, sailing over a calm sea, we may be wafted to a land surpassing in wonders and in beauty every region hitherto discovered on the habitable globe.
 * One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarcely remember to record, and I shall be well content if nothing worse happen to us during our voyage.
 * He reminds me how often the same accidents have happened to other navigators who have attempted this sea, and in spite of myself, he fills me with cheerful auguries.

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Citations:nay

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun.
 * 3. I find that holy writ in many places Hath semblance with this method, where the cases Do call for one thing, to set forth another; Use it I may, then, and yet nothing smother Truth's golden beams: nay, by this method may Make it cast forth its rays as light as day.
 * Why, Sir, this burden upon my back is more terrible to me than all these things which you have mentioned; nay, methinks I care not what I meet with in the way, if so be I can also meet with deliverance from my burden.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * After days and nights of incredible labour and fatigue, I succeeded in discovering the cause of generation and life; nay, more, I became myself capable of bestowing animation upon lifeless matter.
 * I left the house, the horrid scene of the last night's contention, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regarded as an insuperable barrier between me and my fellow creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me.

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Citations:neat

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * This hovel however, joined a cottage of a neat and pleasant appearance, but after my late dearly bought experience, I dared not enter it.
 * As I turned the promontory I perceived a small neat town and a good harbour, which I entered, my heart bounding with joy at my unexpected escape.

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Citations:negotiation

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He said that he was wearing away his time fruitlessly where he was, that letters from the friends he had formed in London desired his return to complete the negotiation they had entered into for his Indian enterprise.

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Citations:nerves

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I am already far north of London, and as I walk in the streets of Petersburgh, I feel a cold northern breeze play upon my cheeks, which braces my nerves and fills me with delight.

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Citations:never-ending

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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.

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Citations:noblest

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He is an Englishman, and in the midst of national and professional prejudices, unsoftened by cultivation, retains some of the noblest endowments of humanity.

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Citations:notes

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * This done, they compassed them round on every side; some went before, some behind, and some on the right hand, some on the left, as it were to guard them through the upper regions), continually sounding as they went, with melodious noise, in notes on high: so that the very sight was, to them that could behold it, as if heaven itself was come down to meet them.
 * Thus, therefore, they walked on together; and as they walked, ever and anon these trumpeters, even with joyful sound, would, by mixing their music with looks and gestures, still signify to Christian and his brother, how welcome they were into their company, and with what gladness they came to meet them; and now were these two men, as it were, in heaven, before they came at it, being swallowed up with the sight of angels, and with hearing of their melodious notes.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Learn my miseries and do not seek to increase your own." Frankenstein discovered that I made notes concerning his history; he asked to see them and then himself corrected and augmented them in many places, but principally in giving the life and spirit to the conversations he held with his enemy.

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Citations:obliterated

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.
 * Justine also was a girl of merit and possessed qualities which promised to render her life happy; now all was to be obliterated in an ignominious grave, and I the cause!
 * Yet she appeared confident in innocence and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands, for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.

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Citations:observe

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then the Judge called to the jury (who all this while stood by, to hear and observe): Gentlemen of the jury, you see this man about whom so great an uproar hath been made in this town.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I became acquainted with the science of anatomy, but this was not sufficient; I must also observe the natural decay and corruption of the human body.
 * Clerval, who had watched my countenance as I read this letter, was surprised to observe the despair that succeeded the joy I at first expressed on receiving new from my friends.
 * I began also to observe, with greater accuracy, the forms that surrounded me and to perceive the boundaries of the radiant roof of light which canopied me.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But nothing doubting that to whomsoever they applied they had some latent moral for his own improvement, he resolved to treasure up every word he heard, and everything he saw; and especially to observe the shadow of himself when it appeared.

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Citations:occurrence

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Indeed, as the period approached, the threat appeared more as a delusion, not to be regarded as worthy to disturb my peace, while the happiness I hoped for in my marriage wore a greater appearance of certainty as the day fixed for its solemnization drew nearer and I heard it continually spoken of as an occurrence which no accident could possibly prevent.

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Citations:occurrences

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * You minutely described in these papers every step you took in the progress of your work; this history was mingled with accounts of domestic occurrences.
 * The labour of winding among the little paths of the mountain and fixing my feet firmly as I advanced perplexed me, occupied as I was by the emotions which the occurrences of the day had produced.

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Citations:offices

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When I returned, as often as it was necessary, I cleared their path from the snow and performed those offices that I had seen done by Felix.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already — it had not been light all day — and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.
 * It was a large house, but one of broken fortunes; for the spacious offices were little used, their walls were damp and mossy, their windows broken, and their gates decayed.

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Citations:omit

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But in giving an account of the progress of my intellect, I must not omit a circumstance which occurred in the beginning of the month of August of the same year.

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Citations:omitted

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geography had not been omitted; I had learned from these the relative situations of the different countries of the earth.
 * His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations; a creature who could exist in the ice caves of the glaciers and hide himself from pursuit among the ridges of inaccessible precipices was a being possessing faculties it would be vain to cope with.

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