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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.
 * A being whom I myself had formed, and endued with life, had met me at midnight among the precipices of an inaccessible mountain.
 * It was necessary that I should return without delay to Geneva, there to watch over the lives of those I so fondly loved and to lie in wait for the murderer, that if any chance led me to the place of his concealment, or if he dared again to blast me by his presence, I might, with unfailing aim, put an end to the existence of the monstrous image which I had endued with the mockery of a soul still more monstrous.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Here also were several other histories of many other famous things, of all which Christian had a view; as of things both ancient and modern; together with prophecies and predictions of things that have their certain accomplishment, both to the dread and amazement of enemies, and the comfort and solace of pilgrims.
 * Oh, they say, hang him, he is a turncoat! he was not true to his profession. I think God has stirred up even his enemies to hiss at him, and make him a proverb, because he hath forsaken the way. [Jer. 29:18,19]
 * 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.
 * Enter the house of mourning, my friend, but with kindness and affection for those who love you, and not with hatred for your enemies.
 * I am not one of your enemies, I believed you guiltless, notwithstanding every evidence, until I heard that you had yourself declared your guilt.
 * There was none among the myriads of men that existed who would pity or assist me; and should I feel kindness towards my enemies?

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Citations:energies

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Even the sailors feel the power of his eloquence; when he speaks, they no longer despair; he rouses their energies, and while they hear his voice they believe these vast mountains of ice are mole-hills which will vanish before the resolutions of man.

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Citations:enfranchised

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * For myself, there was one reward I promised myself from my detested toils — one consolation for my unparalleled sufferings; it was the prospect of that day when, enfranchised from my miserable slavery, I might claim Elizabeth and forget the past in my union with her.

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Citations:engagement

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I must perform my engagement and let the monster depart with his mate before I allowed myself to enjoy the delight of a union from which I expected peace.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * His feelings are forever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She was dressed in mourning, and her countenance, always engaging, was rendered, by the solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful.
 * The latter method of obtaining the desired intelligence was dilatory and unsatisfactory; besides, I had an insurmountable aversion to the idea of engaging myself in my loathsome task in my father's house while in habits of familiar intercourse with those I loved.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves — sights which before always yielded me supreme delight — so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.

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Citations:enhanced

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I saw few human beings besides them, and if any other happened to enter the cottage, their harsh manners and rude gait only enhanced to me the superior accomplishments of my friends.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I was at first unable to solve these questions, but perpetual attention and time explained to me many appearances which were at first enigmatic.

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Citations:enjoined

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I feared the vengeance of the disappointed fiend, yet I was unable to overcome my repugnance to the task which was enjoined me.
 * 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:enjoying

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines.
 * During the day I was sustained and inspirited by the hope of night, for in sleep I saw my friends, my wife, and my beloved country; again I saw the benevolent countenance of my father, heard the silver tones of my Elizabeth's voice, and beheld Clerval enjoying health and youth.

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 * 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.
 * Yet he enjoys one comfort, the offspring of solitude and delirium; he believes that when in dreams he holds converse with his friends and derives from that communion consolation for his miseries or excitements to his vengeance, that they are not the creations of his fancy, but the beings themselves who visit him from the regions of a remote world.

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Citations:enlightened

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the Mole, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake.

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Citations:enormity

 * 1)  Extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty.
 * 2)  An act of extreme evil or wickedness.
 * 1)  An act of extreme evil or wickedness.

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Citations:enquired

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Presently Ernest came, and enquired if we had seen his brother; he said, that he had been playing with him, that William had run away to hide himself, and that he vainly sought for him, and afterwards waited for a long time, but that he did not return.

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Citations:enraptured

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The old man appeared enraptured and said some words which Agatha endeavoured to explain to Safie, and by which he appeared to wish to express that she bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music.
 * My father was enraptured on finding me freed from the vexations of a criminal charge, that I was again allowed to breathe the fresh atmosphere and permitted to return to my native country.

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Citations:enslaved

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Caesar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.

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Citations:ensuing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Summer passed away in these occupations, and my return to Geneva was fixed for the latter end of autumn; but being delayed by several accidents, winter and snow arrived, the roads were deemed impassable, and my journey was retarded until the ensuing spring.
 * "During the ensuing days, while the preparations were going forward for the escape of the merchant, the zeal of Felix was warmed by several letters that he received from this lovely girl, who found means to express her thoughts in the language of her lover by the aid of an old man, a servant of her father who understood French.

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Citations:enters

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The stranger has gradually improved in health but is very silent and appears uneasy when anyone except myself enters his cabin.

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Citations:entertain

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So she ran to the door, and called out Prudence, Piety, and Charity, who, after a little more discourse with him, had him into the family; and many of them, meeting him at the threshold of the house, said, Come in, thou blessed of the Lord; this house was built by the Lord of the hill, on purpose to entertain such pilgrims in.
 * The Lord of these mountains hath given us a charge not to be forgetful to entertain strangers, therefore the good of the place is before you.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But as brother and sister often entertain a lively affection towards each other without desiring a more intimate union, may not such also be our case?

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Citations:entertained

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * By one of those caprices of the mind which we are perhaps most subject to in early youth, I at once gave up my former occupations, set down natural history and all its progeny as a deformed and abortive creation, and entertained the greatest disdain for a would-be science which could never even step within the threshold of real knowledge.
 * 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:enticed

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The silver hair and benevolent countenance of the aged cottager won my reverence, while the gentle manners of the girl enticed my love.

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Citations:enticements

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.

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Citations:entire

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When my guest was a little recovered I had great trouble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose restoration evidently depended upon entire repose.
 * Her tone expressed her entire indifference; she addressed me in English, and the voice struck me as one that I had heard during my sufferings.

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Citations:entrancingly

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "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.

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Citations:entreat

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then I asked him, What I must do when I came; and he told me, I must entreat upon my knees, with all my heart and soul, the Father to reveal him to me.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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:entreaties

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She had at first yielded to our entreaties, but when she heard that the life of her favourite was menaced, she could no longer control her anxiety.

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Citations:entreating

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The sun had far descended, and I still sat on the shore, satisfying my appetite, which had become ravenous, with an oaten cake, when I saw a fishing-boat land close to me, and one of the men brought me a packet; it contained letters from Geneva, and one from Clerval entreating me to join him.

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Citations:enunciation

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He had vowed TO BE WITH ME ON MY WEDDING-NIGHT, yet he did not consider that threat as binding him to peace in the meantime, for as if to show me that he was not yet satiated with blood, he had murdered Clerval immediately after the enunciation of his threats.

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Citations:envelop

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When I look back, it seems to me as if this almost miraculous change of inclination and will was the immediate suggestion of the guardian angel of my life — the last effort made by the spirit of preservation to avert the storm that was even then hanging in the stars and ready to envelop me.

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Citations:enveloped

 * 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.
 * The wind fanned the fire, and the cottage was quickly enveloped by the flames, which clung to it and licked it with their forked and destroying tongues.

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Citations:ephemeral

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows.

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Citations:epithets

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "The child still struggled and loaded me with epithets which carried despair to my heart; I grasped his throat to silence him, and in a moment he lay dead at my feet.

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Citations:epoch

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The weather was fine; it was about the middle of the month of August, nearly two months after the death of Justine, that miserable epoch from which I dated all my woe.
 * We passed a considerable period at Oxford, rambling among its environs and endeavouring to identify every spot which might relate to the most animating epoch of English history.

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Citations:equal

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Nothing could equal my delight on seeing Clerval; his presence brought back to my thoughts my father, Elizabeth, and all those scenes of home so dear to my recollection.
 * The tortures of the accused did not equal mine; she was sustained by innocence, but the fangs of remorse tore my bosom and would not forgo their hold.
 * My vices are the children of a forced solitude that I abhor, and my virtues will necessarily arise when I live in communion with an equal.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I never saw a more interesting creature: his eyes have generally an expression of wildness, and even madness, but there are moments when, if anyone performs an act of kindness towards him or does him any the most trifling service, his whole countenance is lighted up, as it were, with a beam of benevolence and sweetness that I never saw equalled.
 * The mountains of Switzerland are more majestic and strange, but there is a charm in the banks of this divine river that I never before saw equalled.

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Citations:equitable

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Oh, Frankenstein, be not equitable to every other and trample upon me alone, to whom thy justice, and even thy clemency and affection, is most due.

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Citations:era

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being; all the events of that period appear confused and indistinct.

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Citations:eradicated

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My father saw this change with pleasure, and he turned his thoughts towards the best method of eradicating the remains of my melancholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.

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Citations:especial

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He had come forth from the hands of God a perfect creature, happy and prosperous, guarded by the especial care of his Creator; he was allowed to converse with and acquire knowledge from beings of a superior nature, but I was wretched, helpless, and alone.
 * The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, confirmed in an especial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He felt that he was restored to consciousness in the right nick of time, for the especial purpose of holding a conference with the second messenger despatched to him through Jacob Marley's intervention.

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Citations:especially

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * But why wilt thou seek for ease this way, seeing so many dangers attend it? especially since, hadst thou but patience to hear me, I could direct thee to the obtaining of what thou desirest, without the dangers that thou in this way wilt run thyself into; yea, and the remedy is at hand.
 * Yes, and did see such things there, the remembrance of which will stick by me as long as I live; especially three things: to wit, how Christ, in despite of Satan, maintains his work of grace in the heart; how the man had sinned himself quite out of hopes of God's mercy; and also the dream of him that thought in his sleep the day of judgement was come.
 * Yes, but greatly against my will; especially my inward and carnal cogitations, with which all my countrymen, as well as myself, were delighted; but now all those things are my grief; and might I but choose mine own things,

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They often, I believe, suffered the pangs of hunger very poignantly, especially the two younger cottagers, for several times they placed food before the old man when they reserved none for themselves.
 * But if his countenance was more sorrowful, his voice was more cheerful than that of his sister, especially when he addressed the old man.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * When this result was brought about, old Fezziwig, clapping his hands to stop the dance, cried out, "Well done!" and the fiddler plunged his hot face into a pot of porter, especially provided for that purpose.
 * But, they were happy, grateful, pleased with one another, and contented with the time; and when they faded, and looked happier yet in the bright sprinklings of the Spirit's torch at parting, Scrooge had his eye upon them, and especially on Tiny Tim, until the last.
 * For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about, when they sung a Glee or Catch, I can assure you: especially Topper, who could growl away in the bass like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get red in the face over it.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But it is your happiness I desire as well as my own when I declare to you that our marriage would render me eternally miserable unless it were the dictate of your own free choice.

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 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * You are going now, said they, to the paradise of God, wherein you shall see the tree of life, and eat of the never-fading fruits thereof; and when you come there, you shall have white robes given you, and your walk and talk shall be every day with the King, even all the days of eternity.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It was during an access of this kind that I suddenly left my home, and bending my steps towards the near Alpine valleys, sought in the magnificence, the eternity of such scenes, to forget myself and my ephemeral, because human, sorrows.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed.

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Citations:eulogy

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Krempe had now commenced an eulogy on himself, which happily turned the conversation from a subject that was so annoying to me.

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Citations:eventful

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I could not help being struck by the strange coincidences that had taken place during this eventful night; but, knowing that I had been conversing with several persons in the island I had inhabited about the time that the body had been found, I was perfectly tranquil as to the consequences of the affair.

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Citations:eventual

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He entered attentively into all my arguments in favour of my eventual success and into every minute detail of the measures I had taken to secure it.

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Citations:ever-gentle

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Agatha, the ever-gentle Agatha, kissed the hands of the lovely stranger, and pointing to her brother, made signs which appeared to me to mean that he had been sorrowful until she came.

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Citations:ever-moving

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I remembered the effect that the view of the tremendous and ever-moving glacier had produced upon my mind when I first saw it.

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Citations:ever-varied

 * 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."

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Citations:ever-watchful

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But I concealed my feelings by an appearance of hilarity that brought smiles and joy to the countenance of my father, but hardly deceived the ever-watchful and nicer eye of Elizabeth.

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Citations:everyone

 * 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein.
 * If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion; the love of another will destroy the cause of my crimes, and I shall become a thing of whose existence everyone will be ignorant.
 * 1847 Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVII.
 * It was well I secured this forage; everyone downstairs was too much engaged to think of us.
 * 1914, James Joyce, Dubliners, "An Encounter".
 * Everyone's heart palpitated as Leo Dillon handed up the paper and everyone assumed an innocent face.

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Citations:everything

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The country in the neighbourhood of this village resembled, to a greater degree, the scenery of Switzerland; but everything is on a lower scale, and the green hills want the crown of distant white Alps which always attend on the piny mountains of my native country.
 * 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.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * To see the dingy cloud come drooping down, obscuring everything, one might have thought that Nature lived hard by, and was brewing on a large scale.
 * He only knew that it was quite correct; that everything had happened so; that there he was, alone again, when all the other boys had gone home for the jolly holidays.
 * 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:evidently

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When my guest was a little recovered I had great trouble to keep off the men, who wished to ask him a thousand questions; but I would not allow him to be tormented by their idle curiosity, in a state of body and mind whose restoration evidently depended upon entire repose.
 * 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.
 * She was tranquil, yet her tranquillity was evidently constrained; and as her confusion had before been adduced as a proof of her guilt, she worked up her mind to an appearance of courage.

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Citations:evinced

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I was easily led by the sympathy which he evinced to use the language of my heart, to give utterance to the burning ardour of my soul and to say, with all the fervour that warmed me, how gladly I would sacrifice my fortune, my existence, my every hope, to the furtherance of my enterprise.

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Citations:exalted

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I doubted at first whether I should attempt the creation of a being like myself, or one of simpler organization; but my imagination was too much exalted by my first success to permit me to doubt of my ability to give life to an animal as complex and wonderful as man.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * 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.

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Citations:examine

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * But they that were appointed to examine them did not believe them to be any other than bedlams and mad, or else such as came to put all things into a confusion in the fair.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel-houses.
 * During this interval, one of the servants, happening to examine the apparel she had worn on the night of the murder, had discovered in her pocket the picture of my mother, which had been judged to be the temptation of the murderer.

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Citations:examining

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "On examining my dwelling, I found that one of the windows of the cottage had formerly occupied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood.

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Citations:exasperated

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * During my absence I should leave my friends unconscious of the existence of their enemy and unprotected from his attacks, exasperated as he might be by my departure.
 * She also might turn with disgust from him to the superior beauty of man; she might quit him, and he be again alone, exasperated by the fresh provocation of being deserted by one of his own species.

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in senso lato

Etymology
From +  +  (cfr. 🇨🇬).

Adverb

 * 1) in a broad or loose sense

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Citations:excellence

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She thought her the model of all excellence and endeavoured to imitate her phraseology and manners, so that even now she often reminds me of her.
 * Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

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Citations:excess

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "But this was a luxury of sensation that could not endure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.
 * Even in my own heart I could give no expression to my sensations — they weighed on me with a mountain's weight and their excess destroyed my agony beneath them.
 * I trembled with excess of agitation as I said this; there was a frenzy in my manner, and something, I doubt not, of that haughty fierceness which the martyrs of old are said to have possessed.

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 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The cold is not excessive, if you are wrapped in furs — a dress which I have already adopted, for there is a great difference between walking the deck and remaining seated motionless for hours, when no exercise prevents the blood from actually freezing in your veins.
 * It is also a duty owed to yourself, for excessive sorrow prevents improvement or enjoyment, or even the discharge of daily usefulness, without which no man is fit for society."

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Citations:excite

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.
 * With trembling hand I conveyed the instruments out of the room, but I reflected that I ought not to leave the relics of my work to excite the horror and suspicion of the peasants; and I accordingly put them into a basket, with a great quantity of stones, and laying them up, determined to throw them into the sea that very night; and in the meantime I sat upon the beach, employed in cleaning and arranging my chemical apparatus.

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Citations:excitements

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Yet he enjoys one comfort, the offspring of solitude and delirium; he believes that when in dreams he holds converse with his friends and derives from that communion consolation for his miseries or excitements to his vengeance, that they are not the creations of his fancy, but the beings themselves who visit him from the regions of a remote world.

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Citations:exciting

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.

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Citations:exclamations

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I only wonder that at that moment, instead of venting my sensations in exclamations and agony, I did not rush among mankind and perish in the attempt to destroy them.

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Citations:excluded

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Besides, had his jewels been missing at the gate of the Celestial City, he had (and that he knew well enough) been excluded from an inheritance there; and that would have been worse to him than the appearance and villainy of ten thousand thieves.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I shall feel the affections of a sensitive being and become linked to the chain of existence and events from which I am now excluded."

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Citations:exculpated

 * 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:excursion

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When I was about five years old, while making an excursion beyond the frontiers of Italy, they passed a week on the shores of the Lake of Como.

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Citations:execrated

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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:execration

 * 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:execute

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I am practically industrious — painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour — but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.
 * All was silent in and around the cottage; it was an excellent opportunity; yet, when I proceeded to execute my plan, my limbs failed me and I sank to the ground.
 * For this purpose I will preserve my life; to execute this dear revenge will I again behold the sun and tread the green herbage of earth, which otherwise should vanish from my eyes forever.

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Citations:executed

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My imagination was vivid, yet my powers of analysis and application were intense; by the union of these qualities I conceived the idea and executed the creation of a man.
 * I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived and long for the moment when these hands will meet my eyes, when that imagination will haunt my thoughts no more.

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Citations:executing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Soon, oh, very soon, will death extinguish these throbbings and relieve me from the mighty weight of anguish that bears me to the dust; and, in executing the award of justice, I shall also sink to rest.

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Citations:exempt

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But through the whole period during which I was the slave of my creature I allowed myself to be governed by the impulses of the moment; and my present sensations strongly intimated that the fiend would follow me and exempt my family from the danger of his machinations.

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Citations:exercised

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * A youth passed in solitude, my best years spent under your gentle and feminine fosterage, has so refined the groundwork of my character that I cannot overcome an intense distaste to the usual brutality exercised on board ship: I have never believed it to be necessary, and when I heard of a mariner equally noted for his kindliness of heart and the respect and obedience paid to him by his crew, I felt myself peculiarly fortunate in being able to secure his services.
 * The possession of these treasures gave me extreme delight; I now continually studied and exercised my mind upon these histories, whilst my friends were employed in their ordinary occupations.

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Citations:exert

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Nor did my hate long confine itself to useless wishes; I began to reflect on the best means of securing him; and for this purpose, about a month after my release, I repaired to a criminal judge in the town and told him that I had an accusation to make, that I knew the destroyer of my family, and that I required him to exert his whole authority for the apprehension of the murderer.
 * When I had concluded my narration I said, "This is the being whom I accuse and for whose seizure and punishment I call upon you to exert your whole power.
 * "I will exert myself, and if it is in my power to seize the monster, be assured that he shall suffer punishment proportionate to his crimes.

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Citations:exerting

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Again I rose, and exerting all the firmness of which I was master, removed the planks which I had placed before my hovel to conceal my retreat.

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Citations:exertions

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My trifling occupations take up my time and amuse me, and I am rewarded for any exertions by seeing none but happy, kind faces around me.
 * We have no trace of him at present, although our exertions to discover him are unremitted; but they will not restore my beloved William!
 * He, however, answered mildly, "I would willingly afford you every aid in your pursuit, but the creature of whom you speak appears to have powers which would put all my exertions to defiance.

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Citations:exhaustion

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I attempted to accompany them and proceeded a short distance from the house, but my head whirled round, my steps were like those of a drunken man, I fell at last in a state of utter exhaustion; a film covered my eyes, and my skin was parched with the heat of fever.
 * Sometimes, when nature, overcome by hunger, sank under the exhaustion, a repast was prepared for me in the desert that restored and inspirited me.

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Citations:exhibit

 * 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 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:exhibited

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I need not describe the feelings of those whose dearest ties are rent by that most irreparable evil, the void that presents itself to the soul, and the despair that is exhibited on the countenance.
 * "Safie resolved to remain with her father until the moment of his departure, before which time the Turk renewed his promise that she should be united to his deliverer; and Felix remained with them in expectation of that event; and in the meantime he enjoyed the society of the Arabian, who exhibited towards him the simplest and tenderest affection.
 * Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome.

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Citations:exhortations

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Agatha listened with respect, her eyes sometimes filled with tears, which she endeavoured to wipe away unperceived; but I generally found that her countenance and tone were more cheerful after having listened to the exhortations of her father.

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Citations:exile

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They remained confined for five months before the trial took place, the result of which deprived them of their fortune and condemned them to a perpetual exile from their native country.
 * By some papers of her father which fell into her hands she heard of the exile of her lover and learnt the name of the spot where he then resided.
 * "I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe forever, and every other place in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile."

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Citations:exist

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Did any one indeed exist, except I, the creator, who would believe, unless his senses convinced him, in the existence of the living monument of presumption and rash ignorance which I had let loose upon the world?
 * 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.
 * "I swear," he cried, "by the sun, and by the blue sky of heaven, and by the fire of love that burns my heart, that if you grant my prayer, while they exist you shall never behold me again.

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Citations:existing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Through this work I obtained a cursory knowledge of history and a view of the several empires at present existing in the world; it gave me an insight into the manners, governments, and religions of the different nations of the earth.

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Citations:exordium

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I trembled violently at his exordium, and my father continued — "I confess, my son, that I have always looked forward to your marriage with our dear Elizabeth as the tie of our domestic comfort and the stay of my declining years.

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Citations:exotic

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He strove to shelter her, as a fair exotic is sheltered by the gardener, from every rougher wind and to surround her with all that could tend to excite pleasurable emotion in her soft and benevolent mind.

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Citations:expanded

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I heard of the difference of sexes, and the birth and growth of children, how the father doted on the smiles of the infant, and the lively sallies of the older child, how all the life and cares of the mother were wrapped up in the precious charge, how the mind of youth expanded and gained knowledge, of brother, sister, and all the various relationships which bind one human being to another in mutual bonds.
 * The delight of Clerval was proportionably greater than mine; his mind expanded in the company of men of talent, and he found in his own nature greater capacities and resources than he could have imagined himself to have possessed while he associated with his inferiors.

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Citations:expanding

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves — sights which before always yielded me supreme delight — so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.

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Citations:expanse

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The colleges are ancient and picturesque; the streets are almost magnificent; and the lovely Isis, which flows beside it through meadows of exquisite verdure, is spread forth into a placid expanse of waters, which reflects its majestic assemblage of towers, and spires, and domes, embosomed among aged trees.
 * Once, after the poor animals that conveyed me had with incredible toil gained the summit of a sloping ice mountain, and one, sinking under his fatigue, died, I viewed the expanse before me with anguish, when suddenly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain.

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Citations:expectations

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My beloved sister, the sickening failing of your heart-felt expectations is, in prospect, more terrible to me than my own death.

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Citations:expedition

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * These are my enticements, and they are sufficient to conquer all fear of danger or death and to induce me to commence this laborious voyage with the joy a child feels when he embarks in a little boat, with his holiday mates, on an expedition of discovery up his native river.
 * In this expedition we did not intend to follow the great road to Edinburgh, but to visit Windsor, Oxford, Matlock, and the Cumberland lakes, resolving to arrive at the completion of this tour about the end of July.

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Citations:expeditions

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; I often worked harder than the common sailors during the day and devoted my nights to the study of mathematics, the theory of medicine, and those branches of physical science from which a naval adventurer might derive the greatest practical advantage.

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Citations:experiment

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * During my first experiment, a kind of enthusiastic frenzy had blinded me to the horror of my employment; my mind was intently fixed on the consummation of my labour, and my eyes were shut to the horror of my proceedings.

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Citations:experimentalist

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics." He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.

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Citations:experiments

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * After having made a few preparatory experiments, he concluded with a panegyric upon modern chemistry, the terms of which I shall never forget: "The ancient teachers of this science," said he, "promised impossibilities and performed nothing.

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Citations:explain

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * To explain myself — the Word of God saith of persons in a natural condition, "There is none righteous, there is none that doeth good." [Rom.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The old man appeared enraptured and said some words which Agatha endeavoured to explain to Safie, and by which he appeared to wish to express that she bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music.
 * "I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to call them)."

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And then let any man explain to me, if he can, how it happened that Scrooge, having his key in the lock of the door, saw in the knocker, without its undergoing any intermediate process of change — not a knocker, but Marley's face.

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Citations:explained

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * If your wish is to become really a man of science and not merely a petty experimentalist, I should advise you to apply to every branch of natural philosophy, including mathematics." He then took me into his laboratory and explained to me the uses of his various machines, instructing me as to what I ought to procure and promising me the use of his own when I should have advanced far enough in the science not to derange their mechanism.
 * I was at first unable to solve these questions, but perpetual attention and time explained to me many appearances which were at first enigmatic.
 * While I listened to the instructions which Felix bestowed upon the Arabian, the strange system of human society was explained to me.

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Citations:exploded

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and floundering desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reasoning, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.

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Citations:exploit

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Yet he might not have been so perfectly humane, so thoughtful in his generosity, so full of kindness and tenderness amidst his passion for adventurous exploit, had she not unfolded to him the real loveliness of beneficence and made the doing good the end and aim of his soaring ambition.

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Citations:explore

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I am practically industrious — painstaking, a workman to execute with perseverance and labour — but besides this there is a love for the marvellous, a belief in the marvellous, intertwined in all my projects, which hurries me out of the common pathways of men, even to the wild sea and unvisited regions I am about to explore.
 * So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein — more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps already marked, I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers, and unfold to the world the deepest mysteries of creation.

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Citations:exposing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I do not know that the relation of my disasters will be useful to you; yet, when I reflect that you are pursuing the same course, exposing yourself to the same dangers which have rendered me what I am, I imagine that you may deduce an apt moral from my tale, one that may direct you if you succeed in your undertaking and console you in case of failure.

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Citations:expostulate

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The generous nature of Safie was outraged by this command; she attempted to expostulate with her father, but he left her angrily, reiterating his tyrannical mandate.

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Citations:expressions

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured.
 * I was at first touched by the expressions of his misery; yet, when I called to mind what Frankenstein had said of his powers of eloquence and persuasion, and when I again cast my eyes on the lifeless form of my friend, indignation was rekindled within me.

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Citations:exquisitely

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She was dressed in mourning, and her countenance, always engaging, was rendered, by the solemnity of her feelings, exquisitely beautiful.

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text:
Citations:extended

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It is true that I have thought more and that my daydreams are more extended and magnificent, but they want (as the painters call it) KEEPING; and I greatly need a friend who would have sense enough not to despise me as romantic, and affection enough for me to endeavour to regulate my mind.
 * 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:extent

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I afterwards learned that, knowing my father's advanced age and unfitness for so long a journey, and how wretched my sickness would make Elizabeth, he spared them this grief by concealing the extent of my disorder.
 * I wished to see him again, that I might wreak the utmost extent of abhorrence on his head and avenge the deaths of William and Justine.
 * But I was bewildered, perplexed, and unable to arrange my ideas sufficiently to understand the full extent of his proposition.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.

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Citations:extinction

 * 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.
 * But it was not so; thou didst seek my extinction, that I might not cause greater wretchedness; and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hadst not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than that which I feel.

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Citations:extinguish

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * The Interpreter answered, This fire is the work of grace that is wrought in the heart; he that casts water upon it, to extinguish and put it out, is the Devil; but in that thou seest the fire notwithstanding burn higher and hotter, thou shalt also see the reason of that.

 * 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.
 * Little did I then expect the calamity that was in a few moments to overwhelm me and extinguish in horror and despair all fear of ignominy or death.
 * Soon, oh, very soon, will death extinguish these throbbings and relieve me from the mighty weight of anguish that bears me to the dust; and, in executing the award of justice, I shall also sink to rest.

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Citations:extract

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food; but a circumstance that happened when I arrived on the confines of Switzerland, when the sun had recovered its warmth and the earth again began to look green, confirmed in an especial manner the bitterness and horror of my feelings.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He was obliged to sit close to it, and brood over it, before he could extract the least sensation of warmth from such a handful of fuel.

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Citations:extracting

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The ball had entered my shoulder, and I knew not whether it had remained there or passed through; at any rate I had no means of extracting it.

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text:
Citations:extremely

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So I saw that when they awoke, they addressed themselves to go up to the city; but, as I said, the reflection of the sun upon the city (for the city was pure gold) was so extremely glorious that they could not, as yet, with open face behold it, but through an instrument made for that purpose.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She is very clever and gentle, and extremely pretty; as I mentioned before, her mien and her expression continually remind me of my dear aunt.
 * "This reading had puzzled me extremely at first, but by degrees I discovered that he uttered many of the same sounds when he read as when he talked.
 * 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.
 * All he could make out was, that it was still very foggy and extremely cold, and that there was no noise of people running to and fro, and making a great stir, as there unquestionably would have been if night had beaten off bright day, and taken possession of the world.

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Citations:extremes

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I was more agile than they and could subsist upon coarser diet; I bore the extremes of heat and cold with less injury to my frame; my stature far exceeded theirs.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.

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Citations:extremities

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs.

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Citations:extricate

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Cold, want, and fatigue were the least pains which I was destined to endure; I was cursed by some devil and carried about with me my eternal hell; yet still a spirit of good followed and directed my steps and when I most murmured would suddenly extricate me from seemingly insurmountable difficulties.

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Citations:exultation

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The air was cold, and the rain again began to descend; we entered the hut, the fiend with an air of exultation, I with a heavy heart and depressed spirits.
 * "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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text:
Citations:eyeballs

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In a solitary chamber, or rather cell, at the top of the house, and separated from all the other apartments by a gallery and staircase, I kept my workshop of filthy creation; my eyeballs were starting from their sockets in attending to the details of my employment.

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text:
Citations:facile

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.

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text:
Citations:facility

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I believe it to be an intuitive discernment, a quick but never-failing power of judgment, a penetration into the causes of things, unequalled for clearness and precision; add to this a facility of expression and a voice whose varied intonations are soul-subduing music.

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Госдума

Etymology
.

Proper noun

 * 1)  lower house of Russian national parliament

title: Госдума


text: exordiums

title: exordiums


text:
Thread:User talk:CodeCat/Appendix:Proto-Germanic/hinþaną/reply

To start with, we don't use a "Related" header. Cognates are generally listed in the etymology section. In this case, though, the etymology of the Russian term would seem to indicate that the Proto-Slavic ancestor of both the terms is borrowed from a descendant of. That would mean that we would add those to the descendants of the latter term, though I'm not quite sure how we would deal with the fact that the Gothic term is a derived form


text: Category:Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *sterh₃-


text:
cãrari

Etymology
From, from. Compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) path, footpath

title: cãrari


text:
杜馬

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) duma lower house of Russian national parliament

title: 杜馬


text: 杜马

title: 杜马


text:
изношенный

Adjective

 * 1) worn-out, threadbare, shabby
 * 2) depreciated
 * 1) depreciated
 * 1) depreciated

title: изношенный


text: Category:Belarusian terms derived from Medieval Latin


text:
familiemedlem

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a family member, close relative or relation

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) a family member, close relative or relation

title: familiemedlem


text: ソナタけいしき

title: ソナタけいしき


text: sonata keishiki

title: sonata keishiki


text: familiemedlemmet

title: familiemedlemmet


text:
ष़

Letter

 * 1) Used to represent the [ʐ] sound in Shina.

title: ष़


text:
peallagra

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1)  pellagra

title: peallagra


text: familiemedlemmer

title: familiemedlemmer


text:
กุ

Etymology 1
After [2377  (1834/35 ) — 2464  (1921/22 )], a Siamese man allegedly notorious for seeking benefits by stealing manuscripts from royal libraries and publishing distorted versions of them to avoid being caught.

Adjective

 * 1)  false; fictitious; forged; fabricated; counterfeit.

Verb

 * 1)  to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false).

Noun

 * 1)  (กล้วย~) a kind of short or small banana.

title: กุ


text: familiemedlemma

title: familiemedlemma


text: familiemedlemmene

title: familiemedlemmene


text:
maĩ

Etymology
From. Hinde (1904) records maii as an equivalent of English and  in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 etc. as its equivalents.

Pronunciation

 * This a is pronounced long.
 * This a is pronounced long.

Noun
(diminutives, )

 * 1) water

Derived terms

 * kũhũ(ũ)ra maaĩ na ndĩrĩ

title: maĩ


text: Category:en:Cities in Afghanistan

title: Category:en:Cities in Afghanistan


text:
គិម្ហន្ត

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1)  summer

title: គិម្ហន្ត


text:
ཟླ་དང་པོ

Proper noun

 * 1) January

title: ཟླ་དང་པོ


text: Category:Belarusian terms derived from Khitan


text: Category:Belarusian terms derived from Mongolic languages


text: みねこ

title: みねこ


text: Mineko

title: Mineko


text:
ໝາກໂປມ

Etymology
From +.

Noun

 * 1) apple

title: ໝາກໂປມ


text:
ໝາກປົ່ມ

Etymology
From +.

Noun

 * 1) apple

title: ໝາກປົ່ມ


text: Category:cy:Dairy farming

title: Category:cy:Dairy farming


text:
heuj

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 or, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) tooth

title: heuj


text: Haruka

title: Haruka


text:
family member

Noun

 * 1) A person belonging to a particular family; a close relative or relation.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: familielid
 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Danish:, slægtning
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: familiano
 * Finnish:, , lähisukulainen
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Ido:
 * Japanese: 家族の一員
 * Korean:
 * Malayalam: കുടുംബാംഗം
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: familiemedlem
 * Nynorsk: familiemedlem
 * Polish: członek rodziny, członkini rodziny
 * Portuguese: membro da família, ,
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Sinhalese: පවුල් සාමාජික
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish: aile ferdi, aile üyesi
 * Vietnamese: thành viên gia đình

title: family member


text: Kaori

title: Kaori


text:
mbarĩki

Pronunciation

Noun

 * 1) castor bean
 * 2) castor oil; Kikuyu people use it for treating minor wounds and protecting, etc.

Synonyms

 * mbarĩki

Noun

 * 1) castor bean

title: mbarĩki


text:
impossible bottle

Noun

 * 1) A bottle, made as a puzzle or ornament, containing an object that appears too large to fit through the bottle's mouth.

title: impossible bottle


text: impossible bottles

title: impossible bottles


text: みなこ

title: みなこ


text: Russell's vipers

title: Russell's vipers


text:
Minako

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
.

title: Minako


text:
pábulo

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1) fodder, pabulum
 * 2)  subject of mocking or damnation

Adjective

 * 1)  proud, arrogant, conceited

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1) fodder, pabulum

title: pábulo


text: はるな

title: はるな


text:
Haruna

Etymology
From, from.

Proper noun

 * 1) Aaron biblical character
 * : Harun, Aaron

title: Haruna


text: Template:table:colors/mt

title: Template:table:colors/mt


text:
Minami

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Minami is the 34314th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 661 individuals. Minami is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (82.15%) and individuals.

Etymology
or.

title: Minami


text:
timotey

Etymology
From.

title: timotey


text:
zygomycetous

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to the zygomycetes.

title: zygomycetous


text:
tampala

Noun

 * 1)  The plant  when used as a vegetable.

title: tampala


text:
eingjartimotey

Etymology
.

title: eingjartimotey


text:
fjallatimotey

Etymology
.

title: fjallatimotey


text:
zupan

Etymology
Of origin, from, from.

Noun

 * 1) The leader of a župa, or administrative unit, among various South Slavic peoples.

Etymology
, from.

title: zupan


text: zupans

title: zupans


text:
zygosporic

Adjective

 * 1) Relating to a zygospore.

title: zygosporic


text: zygodactylism

title: zygodactylism


text:
zoothome

Etymology
From (combining form of) and.

Noun

 * 1)  A number of coral polyps on a branch of coral.

title: zoothome


text: zoöthomes

title: zoöthomes


text:
maguta

Etymology
From. Hinde (1904) records maguta as an equivalent of English in “Jogowini dialect” of Kikuyu, listing also 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬 as its equivalents

Pronunciation

 * Yukawa (1981, 1885) classifies this term into a group including, , , , , , , , , , , , (pl. ), , , and so on.

Derived terms

 * mwagi maguta oigaga (atĩ) hunyũ nĩ ũmwe na arũme
 * mwagi maguta oigaga (atĩ) hunyũ nĩ ũmwe na arũme
 * mwagi maguta oigaga (atĩ) hunyũ nĩ ũmwe na arũme

title: maguta


text: zooks

title: zooks


text:
Talk:zoothome

Not sure whether this one is attestable without the dotty ö. Equinox ◑ 14:26, 11 January 2016 (UTC)

title: Talk:zoothome


text: zonated

title: zonated


text: ほそかわ

title: ほそかわ


text:
Hosokawa

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
.

title: Hosokawa


text: Template:table:colors/ar

title: Template:table:colors/ar


text:
zonda

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) A hot, dry wind of the Andes.

Verb

 * 1) to hate

title: zonda


text: zondas

title: zondas


text: しみず

title: しみず


text:
Shimizu

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Shimizu is the 11960th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2613 individuals. Shimizu is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (80.1%) individuals.

Etymology
.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
Borrowed from Hepburn romaji of.

title: Shimizu


text: zereba

title: zereba


text: zerebas

title: zerebas


text: しまづ

title: しまづ


text:
Shimazu

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

title: Shimazu


text: zarape

title: zarape


text: zarapes

title: zarapes


text:
латексный

Adjective

 * 1)  latex

title: латексный


text:
uforutsigbar

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) unpredictable

title: uforutsigbar


text: youk

title: youk


text: youking

title: youking


text: youked

title: youked


text: youks

title: youks


text:
yobbism

Noun

 * 1) yobbish behaviour; hooliganism

title: yobbism


text: yatras

title: yatras


text:
yaboo

Etymology
.

Noun

 * 1)  An Afghan pony used as a beast of burden.

title: yaboo


text: yaboos

title: yaboos


text: uforutsigbart

title: uforutsigbart


text:
xanthophyllous

Adjective

 * 1) Of or relating to xanthophyll.

title: xanthophyllous


text:
wreather

Noun

 * 1) One who prepares wreaths of flowers.

title: wreather


text: wreathers

title: wreathers


text:
compassement

Etymology
..

Noun

 * 1) exact measurement or regulation

Etymology
From ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) Guile, craft, or plotting; the practice of sleight-of hand.
 * 2) A scheme or plan formulated in secrecy and with malicious intent.
 * 3)  The utilisation or application of knowledge.

title: compassement


text: uforutsigbare

title: uforutsigbare


text: woomerah

title: woomerah


text: woomerahs

title: woomerahs


text: ささき

title: ささき


text: compétant

title: compétant


text: compété

title: compété


text: compétons

title: compétons


text: compétez

title: compétez


text: compètent

title: compètent


text: compétais

title: compétais


text: compétait

title: compétait


text:
compéter

Etymology
.

Verb

 * 1)  to be competent; to have jurisdiction

title: compéter


text: compétions

title: compétions


text: compétiez

title: compétiez


text: compétaient

title: compétaient


text: compétai

title: compétai


text: compétas

title: compétas


text: compéta

title: compéta


text: compétâmes

title: compétâmes


text: compétâtes

title: compétâtes


text: compétèrent

title: compétèrent


text: compéterai

title: compéterai


text: compèterai

title: compèterai


text: compéteras

title: compéteras


text: compèteras

title: compèteras


text: compétera

title: compétera


text: compètera

title: compètera


text: compéterons

title: compéterons


text: compèterons

title: compèterons


text: compéterez

title: compéterez


text: compèterez

title: compèterez


text: compéteront

title: compéteront


text: compèteront

title: compèteront


text: compéterais

title: compéterais


text: compèterais

title: compèterais


text: compéterait

title: compéterait


text: compèterait

title: compèterait


text: compéterions

title: compéterions


text: compèterions

title: compèterions


text: compéteriez

title: compéteriez


text: compèteriez

title: compèteriez


text: compéteraient

title: compéteraient


text: compèteraient

title: compèteraient


text: compétasse

title: compétasse


text:
Sasaki

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
.

title: Sasaki


text: compétasses

title: compétasses


text: compétât

title: compétât


text: compétassions

title: compétassions


text: compétassiez

title: compétassiez


text: compétassent

title: compétassent


text: peldón

title: peldón


text:
Weet

Etymology
From, , , from , (found only as , ), from. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) knowledge
 * 2) idea; notion
 * 3) inkling; suspicion

title: Weet


text: woodwaxen

title: woodwaxen


text:
woodwax

Noun

 * 1) A waxy cap mushroom.
 * 1) A waxy cap mushroom.

title: woodwax


text: woodwaxens

title: woodwaxens


text: なかがわ

title: なかがわ


text:
Nakagawa

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Nakagawa is the 12696th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 2431 individuals. Nakagawa is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (80.46%) and Mixed Race (11.48%) individuals.

Etymology
.

title: Nakagawa


text: connoissent

title: connoissent


text: まつだ

title: まつだ


text:
Matsuda

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
Borrowed from Hepburn romaji of.

title: Matsuda


text: まつだいら

title: まつだいら


text:
Matsudaira

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Proper noun

 * 1) * 1973, Staff writer(s), Report to the Governor on Discrimination Against Asians: Public Hearing Conducted on March 3, 1973, Seattle, Washington, Washington (State). Asian-American Advisory Council, page vi:
 * Staff assistance was provided by Council Director Martin Matsudaira.
 * 1) * 1982, Mayumi Tsutakawa and Alan Chong Lau, Turning Shadows Into Light: Art and Culture of the Northwest's Early Asian/Pacific Community, Young Pine Press, page 1901:
 * Zoe Dusanne, one of the area's first gallery owners, took an interest in four of the young Japanese painters -- Nomura, Tsutakawa, Horiuchi and John Matsudaira, a Nisei painter in the area.
 * 1) * 2016, Lim Hock, Phua Kok Khoo and Tan Bernard, 50 Years of Science in Singapore, World Scientific, page 197:
 * Hew Choy Leung and Paul Matsudaira were the NUS and MIT coordinators for this joint program.
 * 1) * 2016, Lim Hock, Phua Kok Khoo and Tan Bernard, 50 Years of Science in Singapore, World Scientific, page 197:
 * Hew Choy Leung and Paul Matsudaira were the NUS and MIT coordinators for this joint program.

title: Matsudaira


text: Appendix:Lojban/.o

title: Appendix:Lojban/.o


text:
crocheteur

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) picklock (person)

title: crocheteur


text: Appendix:Lojban/.u

title: Appendix:Lojban/.u


text:
चमकदार

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1) shiny, sparkling
 * 2) lustrous

title: चमकदार


text: curiaux

title: curiaux


text: curiales

title: curiales


text: derniere

title: derniere


text: diroit

title: diroit


text: distanciée

title: distanciée


text: distanciées

title: distanciées


text: distancient

title: distancient


text:
distancier

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1) to distance (be detached)

title: distancier


text: distanciait

title: distanciait


text: distanciions

title: distanciions


text: distanciiez

title: distanciiez


text: distanciaient

title: distanciaient


text: distanciâmes

title: distanciâmes


text: distanciâtes

title: distanciâtes


text: distancièrent

title: distancièrent


text: distancierai

title: distancierai


text: distancieras

title: distancieras


text: distanciera

title: distanciera


text: distancierons

title: distancierons


text: distancierez

title: distancierez


text: distancieront

title: distancieront


text: distancierais

title: distancierais


text: distancierait

title: distancierait


text: distancierions

title: distancierions


text: distancieriez

title: distancieriez


text: distancieraient

title: distancieraient


text: distanciât

title: distanciât


text: distanciassions

title: distanciassions


text: distanciassiez

title: distanciassiez


text: distanciassent

title: distanciassent


text:
déambulation

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) stroll, strolling

title: déambulation


text:
hverdagslig

Etymology
From.

Adjective

 * 1) everyday

title: hverdagslig


text:
Yumi

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
.

title: Yumi


text: みつこ

title: みつこ


text: Mitsuko

title: Mitsuko


text: みちこ

title: みちこ


text:
Michiko

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
.

Etymology
Borrowed from Hepburn romaji of.

title: Michiko


text: hverdagslige

title: hverdagslige


text:
はなこ

Usage notes
This given name is attested in a wide variety of kanji spellings. Some of them are listed below.

title: はなこ


text:
Hanako

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

title: Hanako


text: はるこ

title: はるこ


text:
Haruko

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

title: Haruko


text: Category:Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *keh₂p-


text: あさの

title: あさの


text:
Asano

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Asano is the 40800th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 535 individuals. Asano is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (74.21%) and Mixed Race (13.27%) individuals.

title: Asano


text: いしい

title: いしい


text:
Ishii

Proper noun

 * , b. 1959/60
 * , b. 1959/60

Etymology
.

Etymology
.

Etymology
Borrowed from Hepburn romaji of.

title: Ishii


text: ふじさわ

title: ふじさわ


text:
mechovka obecná

Noun

 * 1) the miller,,  species of fungi in the family

Hypernyms

 * – kingdom; – division;  – class;  – order;  – family  – genus

title: mechovka obecná


text:
dagligliv

Etymology
From 🇰🇲.

Noun

 * 1) daily life, everyday life

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) daily life, everyday life

title: dagligliv


text: dagliglivet

title: dagliglivet


text:
hverdagsliv

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) everyday life, daily life

title: hverdagsliv


text:
Citations:faint

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Come, pluck up heart, let's neither faint nor fear; Better, though difficult, the right way to go, Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe."
 * Thou didst faint at first setting out, when thou wast almost choked in the Gulf of Despond; thou didst attempt wrong ways to be rid of thy burden, whereas thou shouldst have stayed till thy Prince had taken it off; thou didst sinfully sleep and lose thy choice thing; thou wast, also, almost persuaded to go back at the sight of the lions; and when thou talkest of thy journey, and of what thou hast heard and seen, thou art inwardly desirous of vain-glory in all that thou sayest or doest.
 * I have sowed, and you have reaped: and the day is coming, when both he that sowed and they that reaped shall rejoice together; that is, if you hold out:  "for in due season ye shall reap, if ye faint not."  [John 4:36, Gal.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the Mole, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake.
 * My heart, which was before sorrowful, now swelled with something like joy; I exclaimed, "Wandering spirits, if indeed ye wander, and do not rest in your narrow beds, allow me this faint happiness, or take me, as your companion, away from the joys of life."

title: Citations:faint


text:
Citations:fainted

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * One of the best of these I entered, but I had hardly placed my foot within the door before the children shrieked, and one of the women fainted.
 * I am weak, but surely the spirits who assist my vengeance will endow me with sufficient strength." Saying this, he endeavoured to spring from the bed, but the exertion was too great for him; he fell back and fainted.

title: Citations:fainted


text:
Citations:fairer

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Men that have any dealings with him say it is better to deal with a Turk than with him; for fairer dealing they shall have at their hands.

 * 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.

title: Citations:fairer


text:
Citations:fairest

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * And then I bent over her and whispered, 'Awake, fairest, thy lover is near — he who would give his life but to obtain one look of affection from thine eyes; my beloved, awake!'
 * And then I bent over her and whispered, 'Awake, fairest, thy lover is near — he who would give his life but to obtain one look of affection from thine eyes; my beloved, awake!'

title: Citations:fairest


text:
Citations:fanciful

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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?

title: Citations:fanciful


text:
Citations:fashioned

 * 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.
 * My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.

title: Citations:fashioned


text:
Citations:favourites

 * 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.

title: Citations:favourites


text:
Citations:fearing

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * But, at last, they hearing that some were upon the road, and fearing lest it should be one Great-grace, that dwells in the city of Good-confidence, they betook themselves to their heels, and left this good man to shift for himself.

 * 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.
 * I took refuge in the courtyard belonging to the house which I inhabited, where I remained during the rest of the night, walking up and down in the greatest agitation, listening attentively, catching and fearing each sound as if it were to announce the approach of the demoniacal corpse to which I had so miserably given life.
 * Sometimes I sat with my eyes fixed on the ground, fearing to raise them lest they should encounter the object which I so much dreaded to behold.

title: Citations:fearing


text:
Citations:fibres

 * 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.

title: Citations:fibres


text:
Citations:fill

 * 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.
 * But Little-faith was of another temper, his mind was on things divine; his livelihood was upon things that were spiritual, and from above; therefore, to what end should he that is of such a temper sell his jewels (had there been any that would have bought them) to fill his mind with empty things?

 * 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!
 * Company was irksome to me; when alone, I could fill my mind with the sights of heaven and earth; the voice of Henry soothed me, and I could thus cheat myself into a transitory peace.
 * But, besides, I could not bring myself to disclose a secret which would fill my hearer with consternation and make fear and unnatural horror the inmates of his breast.

 * 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.

title: Citations:fill


text:
Citations:fills

 * 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.
 * 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.
 * These feelings are transitory; each day of expectation delayed fills them with fear, and I almost dread a mutiny caused by this despair.

title: Citations:fills


text:
Citations:film

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had before regarded my promise with a gloomy despair as a thing that, with whatever consequences, must be fulfilled; but I now felt as if a film had been taken from before my eyes and that I for the first time saw clearly.
 * I attempted to accompany them and proceeded a short distance from the house, but my head whirled round, my steps were like those of a drunken man, I fell at last in a state of utter exhaustion; a film covered my eyes, and my skin was parched with the heat of fever.

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Citations:flashes

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * There came also flashes of fire out of the hill, that made Christian afraid that he should be burned. [Ex. 19:16, 18] Here, therefore, he sweat and did quake for fear. [Heb. 12:21]

 * 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.
 * Another storm enlightened Jura with faint flashes; and another darkened and sometimes disclosed the Mole, a peaked mountain to the east of the lake.

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Citations:flight

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then they read to him some of the worthy acts that some of his servants had done: as, how they had "subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of the aliens."  [Heb 11:33,34]
 * They shewed him Moses' rod; the hammer and nail with which Jael slew Sisera; the pitchers, trumpets, and lamps too, with which Gideon put to flight the armies of Midian.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle, and quickly lost among the undulations of the sea of ice.
 * The moon had reached her summit in the heavens and was beginning to descend; the clouds swept across it swifter than the flight of the vulture and dimmed her rays, while the lake reflected the scene of the busy heavens, rendered still busier by the restless waves that were beginning to rise.
 * A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pistols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * You may talk vaguely about driving a coach-and-six up a good old flight of stairs, or through a bad young Act of Parliament; but I mean to say you might have got a hearse up that staircase, and taken it broadwise, with the splinter-bar towards the wall and the door towards the balustrades: and done it easy.

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Citations:flitted

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When I slept or was absent, the forms of the venerable blind father, the gentle Agatha, and the excellent Felix flitted before me.

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Citations:float

 * 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.

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Citations:flourished

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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:follows

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * No, I was not willing presently to know the evil of sin, nor the damnation that follows upon the commission of it; but endeavoured, when my mind at first began to be shaken with the Word, to shut mine eyes against the light thereof.
 * There you shall enjoy your friends again that are gone thither before you; and there you shall with joy receive, even every one that follows into the holy place after you.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

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Citations:forcing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * We accordingly brought him back to the deck and restored him to animation by rubbing him with brandy and forcing him to swallow a small quantity.

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Citations:forebodings

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.
 * I looked towards its completion with a tremulous and eager hope, which I dared not trust myself to question but which was intermixed with obscure forebodings of evil that made my heart sicken in my bosom.

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Citations:forehead

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So the first said to him, "Thy sins be forgiven thee" [Mark 2:5]; the second stripped him of his rags, and clothed him with change of raiment [Zech. 3:4]; the third also set a mark on his forehead, and gave him a roll with a seal upon it, which he bade him look on as he ran, and that he should give it in at the Celestial Gate. [Eph. 1:13] So they went their way.
 * One of them testified that my sins were forgiven me; another stripped me of my rags, and gave me this broidered coat which you see; and the third set the mark which you see in my forehead, and gave me this sealed roll. (And with that he plucked it out of his bosom.)
 * Why, at first, I found myself somewhat inclinable to go with the man, for I thought he spake very fair; but looking in his forehead, as I talked with him, I saw there written, "Put off the old man with his deeds."

 * 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.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It was not angry or ferocious, but looked at Scrooge as Marley used to look: with ghostly spectacles turned up on its ghostly forehead.
 * For they were a musical family, and knew what they were about, when they sung a Glee or Catch, I can assure you: especially Topper, who could growl away in the bass like a good one, and never swell the large veins in his forehead, or get red in the face over it.

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Citations:formidable

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "It gave me the greatest pleasure to receive a letter from my uncle dated at Paris; you are no longer at a formidable distance, and I may hope to see you in less than a fortnight.

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Citations:fortifications

 * 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:fourteen

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But it is a still greater evil to me that I am self-educated: for the first fourteen years of my life I ran wild on a common and read nothing but our Uncle Thomas' books of voyages.

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Citations:freed

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I have, by my sins, run a great way into God's book, and that my now reforming will not pay off that score; therefore I should think still, under all my present amendments, But how shall I be freed from that damnation that I have brought myself in danger of by my former transgressions?

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My father was enraptured on finding me freed from the vexations of a criminal charge, that I was again allowed to breathe the fresh atmosphere and permitted to return to my native country.
 * They insisted, therefore, that I should engage with a solemn promise that if the vessel should be freed I would instantly direct my course southwards.

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Citations:fretting

 * 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:fringed

 * 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.

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Citations:frost

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I try in vain to be persuaded that the pole is the seat of frost and desolation; it ever presents itself to my imagination as the region of beauty and delight.
 * 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.
 * 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.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He had so heated himself with rapid walking in the fog and frost, this nephew of Scrooge's, that he was all in a glow; his face was ruddy and handsome; his eyes sparkled, and his breath smoked again.
 * Scrooge seized the ruler with such energy of action, that the singer fled in terror, leaving the keyhole to the fog and even more congenial frost.
 * The fog and frost so hung about the black old gateway of the house, that it seemed as if the Genius of the Weather sat in mournful meditation on the threshold.

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Citations:frosts

 * 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:fruitlessly

 * 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:futurity

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I confess to you, my friend, that I love you and that in my airy dreams of futurity you have been my constant friend and companion.

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Citations:gallant

 * 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!
 * The busy stage of life, the virtues of heroes, and the actions of men were his theme; and his hope and his dream was to become one among those whose names are recorded in story as the gallant and adventurous benefactors of our species.

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Citations:garb

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * So the men were brought to examination; and they that sat upon them, asked them whence they came, whither they went, and what they did there, in such an unusual garb?

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Her garb was rustic, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dignity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity.
 * Yet she was meanly dressed, a coarse blue petticoat and a linen jacket being her only garb; her fair hair was plaited but not adorned: she looked patient yet sad.

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