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Citations:omnipotent

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Chance — or rather the evil influence, the Angel of Destruction, which asserted omnipotent sway over me from the moment I turned my reluctant steps from my father's door — led me first to M.
 * It moved every feeling of wonder and awe that the picture of an omnipotent God warring with his creatures was capable of exciting.
 * But to me the remembrance of the threat returned; nor can you wonder that, omnipotent as the fiend had yet been in his deeds of blood, I should almost regard him as invincible, and that when he had pronounced the words "I SHALL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT," I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable.

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Citations:opinions

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * "That they were enemies to and disturbers of their trade; that they had made commotions and divisions in the town, and had won a party to their own most dangerous opinions, in contempt of the law of their prince."
 * We are so, indeed; but the men before us are so rigid, and love so much their own notions, and do also so lightly esteem the opinions of others, that let a man be never so godly, yet if he jumps not with them in all things, they thrust him quite out of their company.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In the Sorrows of Werter, besides the interest of its simple and affecting story, so many opinions are canvassed and so many lights thrown upon what had hitherto been to me obscure subjects that I found in it a never-ending source of speculation and astonishment.
 * I did not pretend to enter into the merits of the case, yet I inclined towards the opinions of the hero, whose extinction I wept, without precisely understanding it.

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Citations:opposed

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * And because, as they thought, no man was able to contradict it, and because Christian and Hopeful were yet within call, they jointly agreed to assault them with the question as soon as they overtook them; and the rather because they had opposed Mr.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "You have travelled; you have spent several years of your life at Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude from the society of every creature, I could not help supposing that you might regret our connection and believe yourself bound in honour to fulfil the wishes of your parents, although they opposed themselves to your inclinations.

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Citations:organization

 * 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.

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Citations:organs

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My organs were indeed harsh, but supple; and although my voice was very unlike the soft music of their tones, yet I pronounced such words as I understood with tolerable ease.

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Citations:outraged

 * 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:outrages

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My daily vows rose for revenge — a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured.

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Citations:overflowing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Pardon this gush of sorrow; these ineffectual words are but a slight tribute to the unexampled worth of Henry, but they soothe my heart, overflowing with the anguish which his remembrance creates.

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Citations:overlooking

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

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Citations:overwhelming

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.
 * The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound.

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Citations:packet

 * 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:painful

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * After so much time spent in painful labour, to arrive at once at the summit of my desires was the most gratifying consummation of my toils.
 * Every night I was oppressed by a slow fever, and I became nervous to a most painful degree; the fall of a leaf startled me, and I shunned my fellow creatures as if I had been guilty of a crime.
 * 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:painfully

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery which insulted my desolate state and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.

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Citations:painters

 * 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.

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Citations:pallid

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

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Citations:palpitate

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Every thought that was devoted to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allusion to it caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate.

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Citations:palpitation

 * 1) An abnormal beating of the heart that may be perceived by the patient, a result of excitement, exertion, or illness.

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Citations:pangs

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Wherefore, here they lay by it a while, crying out, because of their pangs, If ye find my beloved, tell him that I am sick of love.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger.
 * 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.

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Citations:paradisiacal

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I read and reread her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope.

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Citations:parent

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She thanked him in the most ardent terms for his intended services towards her parent, and at the same time she gently deplored her own fate.

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Citations:partiality

 * 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.
 * If she is, as you believe, innocent, rely on the justice of our laws, and the activity with which I shall prevent the slightest shadow of partiality."

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Citations:partly

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * The man that met thee is one Worldly Wiseman, and rightly is he so called; partly, because he savoureth only the doctrine of this world, [1 John 4:5] (therefore he always goes to the town of Morality to church): and partly because he loveth that doctrine best, for it saveth him best from the cross.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I felt the greatest eagerness to hear the promised narrative, partly from curiosity and partly from a strong desire to ameliorate his fate if it were in my power.
 * This letter revived in my memory what I had before forgotten, the threat of the fiend — "I WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT!" Such was my sentence, and on that night would the daemon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings.

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Citations:patiently

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject.

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Kuroda

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Statistics

 * According to the 2010 United States Census, Kuroda is the 37544th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 593 individuals. Kuroda is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (75.38%) individuals.

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Etymology
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Citations:patriarchal

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

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Citations:peaceable

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

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Citations:peaked

 * 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:penetrate

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But I was enchanted by the appearance of the hut; here the snow and rain could not penetrate; the ground was dry; and it presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandemonium appeared to the demons of hell after their sufferings in the lake of fire.

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Citations:penniless

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

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Citations:peopled

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * If, therefore, I could seize him and educate him as my companion and friend, I should not be so desolate in this peopled earth.

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Citations:perceptibly

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I indeed perceptibly gained on it, and when, after nearly two days' journey, I beheld my enemy at no more than a mile distant, my heart bounded within me.

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Citations:periodically

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "It was on one of these days, when my cottagers periodically rested from labour — the old man played on his guitar, and the children listened to him — that I observed the countenance of Felix was melancholy beyond expression; he sighed frequently, and once his father paused in his music, and I conjectured by his manner that he inquired the cause of his son's sorrow.

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Citations:perished

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I saw then in my dream, so far as this valley reached, there was on the right hand a very deep ditch; that ditch is it into which the blind have led the blind in all ages, and have both there miserably perished.
 * True; and she may be to us both caution and example; caution, that we should shun her sin; or a sign of what judgment will overtake such as shall not be prevented by this caution; so Korah, Dathan, and Abiram, with the two hundred and fifty men that perished in their sin, did also become a sign or example to others to beware.

 * 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?

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Citations:permission

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She then related that, by the permission of Elizabeth, she had passed the evening of the night on which the murder had been committed at the house of an aunt at Chene, a village situated at about a league from Geneva.
 * I beg permission to have a few witnesses examined concerning my character, and if their testimony shall not overweigh my supposed guilt, I must be condemned, although I would pledge my salvation on my innocence."
 * Elizabeth saw even this last resource, her excellent dispositions and irreproachable conduct, about to fail the accused, when, although violently agitated, she desired permission to address the court.

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Citations:perpendicular

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I thought of pursuing the devil; but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve, a hill that bounds Plainpalais on the south.

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Citations:perpendicularity

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.

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Citations:perpetrated

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

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Citations:persuading

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He lost no time in endeavouring to seek him out, with the hope of persuading him to begin the world again through his credit and assistance.

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Citations:phenomena

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
 * One of the phenomena which had peculiarly attracted my attention was the structure of the human frame, and, indeed, any animal endued with life.

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Citations:phrase

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Am I afraid to say, that holy writ, Which for its style and phrase puts down all wit, Is everywhere so full of all these things — Dark figures, allegories?

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

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Citations:pictured

 * 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.

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Citations:pillow

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

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Citations:pine

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

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Citations:pines

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The stars shone at intervals as the clouds passed from over them; the dark pines rose before me, and every here and there a broken tree lay on the ground; it was a scene of wonderful solemnity and stirred strange thoughts within me.

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Citations:pink

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Her hair of a shining raven black, and curiously braided; her eyes were dark, but gentle, although animated; her features of a regular proportion, and her complexion wondrously fair, each cheek tinged with a lovely pink.

 * 2017, Patrick Baty, The Anatomy of Color: The Story of Heritage Paints and Pigments (London: Thames & Hudson, 2017, p. 89):
 * Pink is a deceptive name, because it now means a light red or rose pink, whereas in the eighteenth century it referred to a yellow colour produced from a number of organic sources.

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Citations:pinnacle

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

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Citations:pitchy

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

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Citations:playfully

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * On the evening previous to her being brought to my home, my mother had said playfully, "I have a pretty present for my Victor — tomorrow he shall have it." And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine — mine to protect, love, and cherish.
 * She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person from whom she had playfully fled.

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Citations:playing

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Take heed, also, that thou be not extreme, In playing with the outside of my dream: Nor let my figure or similitude Put thee into a laughter or a feud.

 * 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.
 * 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.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * They were a gloomy suite of rooms, in a lowering pile of building up a yard, where it had so little business to be, that one could scarcely help fancying it must have run there when it was a young house, playing at hide-and-seek with other houses, and forgotten the way out again.

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Citations:pleasures

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * For the lusts, pleasures, and profits of this world; in the enjoyment of which I did then promise myself much delight; but now every one of those things also bite me, and gnaw me like a burning worm.
 * They also asked them where they had lodged, what difficulties and dangers, what comforts and pleasures they had met in the way; and they told them.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They consulted their village priest, and the result was that Elizabeth Lavenza became the inmate of my parents' house — my more than sister — the beautiful and adored companion of all my occupations and my pleasures.
 * If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.
 * I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was entering on a new scene of life, undisturbed by any care or bitter recollection.

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Citations:pointing

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then said Evangelist, pointing with his finger over a very wide field, Do you see yonder wicket-gate? [Matt. 7:13,14] The man said, No.

 * 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:pole

 * 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.
 * But supposing all these conjectures to be false, you cannot contest the inestimable benefit which I shall confer on all mankind, to the last generation, by discovering a passage near the pole to those countries, to reach which at present so many months are requisite; or by ascertaining the secret of the magnet, which, if at all possible, can only be effected by an undertaking such as mine.
 * I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyages which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole.

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Citations:populous

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

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Citations:portmanteau

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "One night during my accustomed visit to the neighbouring wood where I collected my own food and brought home firing for my protectors, I found on the ground a leathern portmanteau containing several articles of dress and some books.

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Citations:postpone

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But you are distant from me, and it is possible that you may dread and yet be pleased with this explanation; and in a probability of this being the case, I dare not any longer postpone writing what, during your absence, I have often wished to express to you but have never had the courage to begin.

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Citations:preceptors

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

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Citations:precipitous

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The ascent is precipitous, but the path is cut into continual and short windings, which enable you to surmount the perpendicularity of the mountain.
 * She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream.

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Citations:prepossess

 * 1) Chiefly followed by by or with: to preoccupy (someone) in an emotional or mental way, so as to preclude other things.
 * 2)  To cause (someone) to have a previous inclination against, for, or to something; to bias or prejudice; specifically, to induce in (someone) a favourable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.

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Citations:priest

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

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Citations:productions

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.
 * During my youthful days discontent never visited my mind, and if I was ever overcome by ennui, the sight of what is beautiful in nature or the study of what is excellent and sublime in the productions of man could always interest my heart and communicate elasticity to my spirits.

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Citations:profession

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Not that anything can be accepted that is not of faith, but I speak this to show you how insignificant the profession of Talkative will be at that day.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My lieutenant, for instance, is a man of wonderful courage and enterprise; he is madly desirous of glory, or rather, to word my phrase more characteristically, of advancement in his profession.
 * I fear that he will become an idler unless we yield the point and permit him to enter on the profession which he has selected.

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Citations:professional

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

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Citations:professors

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * The proverb is true of you which is said of a whore, to wit, that she is a shame to all women; so are you a shame to all professors.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When I had arrived at this point and had become as well acquainted with the theory and practice of natural philosophy as depended on the lessons of any of the professors at Ingolstadt, my residence there being no longer conducive to my improvements, I thought of returning to my friends and my native town, when an incident happened that protracted my stay.

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Citations:profited

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The stranger learned about twenty words at the first lesson; most of them, indeed, were those which I had before understood, but I profited by the others.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "There are many things from which I might have derived good, by which I have not profited, I dare say," returned the nephew. "Christmas among the rest.

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Citations:progressively

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But this discovery was so great and overwhelming that all the steps by which I had been progressively led to it were obliterated, and I beheld only the result.

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Citations:property

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He intended to leave his daughter under the care of a confidential servant, to follow at her leisure with the greater part of his property, which had not yet arrived at Leghorn.

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Citations:prophetic

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Thus spoke my prophetic soul, as, torn by remorse, horror, and despair, I beheld those I loved spend vain sorrow upon the graves of William and Justine, the first hapless victims to my unhallowed arts.
 * As the period fixed for our marriage drew nearer, whether from cowardice or a prophetic feeling, I felt my heart sink within me.

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Citations:proportions

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I strained my sight to discover what it could be and uttered a wild cry of ecstasy when I distinguished a sledge and the distorted proportions of a well-known form within.
 * Over him hung a form which I cannot find words to describe — gigantic in stature, yet uncouth and distorted in its proportions.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * It was a strange figure — like a child: yet not so like a child as like an old man, viewed through some supernatural medium, which gave him the appearance of having receded from the view, and being diminished to a child's proportions.

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Citations:protect

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * On the evening previous to her being brought to my home, my mother had said playfully, "I have a pretty present for my Victor — tomorrow he shall have it." And when, on the morrow, she presented Elizabeth to me as her promised gift, I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine — mine to protect, love, and cherish.
 * When these thoughts possessed me, I would not quit Henry for a moment, but followed him as his shadow, to protect him from the fancied rage of his destroyer.

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Citations:protraction

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * By the quantity of provision which I had consumed, I should guess that I had passed three weeks in this journey; and the continual protraction of hope, returning back upon the heart, often wrung bitter drops of despondency and grief from my eyes.

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Citations:provisions

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

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Citations:provoke

 * 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:purchasing

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

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Citations:purposed

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * And when I received their cold answers and heard the harsh, unfeeling reasoning of these men, my purposed avowal died away on my lips.

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Citations:quite

 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * They also thought to drive away his distemper by harsh and surly carriages to him; sometimes they would deride, sometimes they would chide, and sometimes they would quite neglect him.
 * 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.
 * Then Apollyon straddled quite over the whole breadth of the way, and said, I am void of fear in this matter: prepare thyself to die; for I swear by my infernal den, that thou shalt go no further; here will I spill thy soul.
 * 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
 * When I was otherwise quite restored to health, the sight of a chemical instrument would renew all the agony of my nervous symptoms.
 * The whole village was roused; some fled, some attacked me, until, grievously bruised by stones and many other kinds of missile weapons, I escaped to the open country and fearfully took refuge in a low hovel, quite bare, and making a wretched appearance after the palaces I had beheld in the village.
 * 1843, Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol:
 * The city clocks had only just gone three, but it was quite dark already — it had not been light all day — and candles were flaring in the windows of the neighbouring offices, like ruddy smears upon the palpable brown air.
 * He had been quite familiar with one old ghost, in a white waistcoat, with a monstrous iron safe attached to its ankle, who cried piteously at being unable to assist a wretched woman with an infant, whom it saw below, upon a door-step.
 * 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.

 * 2014,, Un tant doç fogier, 2017, IEO Edicions/novelum - IEO, Toulouse/Périgueux, pp. 125-126.
 * A escotar las responsas, a sieis oras dau matin, quau jorn que siá, M. Lestang duerm, ronca, e la maison se pòt esbolhar, remudará pas un quite artelh.

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Citations:quitting

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.
 * He had previously communicated his plan to the former, who aided the deceit by quitting his house, under the pretence of a journey and concealed himself, with his daughter, in an obscure part of Paris.
 * He quickly arranged with the Turk that if the latter should find a favourable opportunity for escape before Felix could return to Italy, Safie should remain as a boarder at a convent at Leghorn; and then, quitting the lovely Arabian, he hastened to Paris and delivered himself up to the vengeance of the law, hoping to free De Lacey and Agatha by this proceeding.

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Citations:quiver

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Every thought that was devoted to it was an extreme anguish, and every word that I spoke in allusion to it caused my lips to quiver, and my heart to palpitate.

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Citations:radiance

 * 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.

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Citations:rapturously

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She appeared affected by different feelings; wiping a few tears from her lovely eyes, she held out her hand to Felix, who kissed it rapturously and called her, as well as I could distinguish, his sweet Arabian.

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Citations:raven

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Her hair of a shining raven black, and curiously braided; her eyes were dark, but gentle, although animated; her features of a regular proportion, and her complexion wondrously fair, each cheek tinged with a lovely pink.

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Citations:ravenous

 * 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:ravished

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "Felix seemed ravished with delight when he saw her, every trait of sorrow vanished from his face, and it instantly expressed a degree of ecstatic joy, of which I could hardly have believed it capable; his eyes sparkled, as his cheek flushed with pleasure; and at that moment I thought him as beautiful as the stranger.

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Citations:rays

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I find that holy writ in many places Hath semblance with this method, where the cases Do call for one thing, to set forth another; Use it I may, then, and yet nothing smother Truth's golden beams: nay, by this method may Make it cast forth its rays as light as day.

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

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Citations:receptacle

 * 1) A container.
 * 2) * 1818, anonymous [Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley], chapter III, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. In Three Volumes, London: Printed for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones,, 682152368 ; republished as Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (Standard Novels; no. IX), rev. and corr. edition, London: Richard Bentley, ; Bell & Bradfute Edinburgh; J. Cumming, Dublin, 1839,  316824153 , page 38:
 * Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.

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Citations:reception

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

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Citations:recommence

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "It was noon when I awoke, and allured by the warmth of the sun, which shone brightly on the white ground, I determined to recommence my travels; and, depositing the remains of the peasant's breakfast in a wallet I found, I proceeded across the fields for several hours, until at sunset I arrived at a village.
 * He was alive to every new scene, joyful when he saw the beauties of the setting sun, and more happy when he beheld it rise and recommence a new day.

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Citations:recur

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.

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Citations:recurrence

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Presently I found, by the frequent recurrence of some sound which the stranger repeated after them, that she was endeavouring to learn their language; and the idea instantly occurred to me that I should make use of the same instructions to the same end.

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Citations:refreshed

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then, I saw that they went on all, save that Christian kept before, who had no more talk but with himself, and that sometimes sighingly, and sometimes comfortably; also he would be often reading in the roll that one of the Shining Ones gave him, by which he was refreshed.
 * He also sat down in that place to eat bread, and to drink of the bottle that was given him a little before; so, being refreshed, he addressed himself to his journey, with his sword drawn in his hand; for he said, I know not but some other enemy may be at hand.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The sleep into which I now sank refreshed me; and when I awoke, I again felt as if I belonged to a race of human beings like myself, and I began to reflect upon what had passed with greater composure; yet still the words of the fiend rang in my ears like a death-knell; they appeared like a dream, yet distinct and oppressive as a reality.
 * But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.

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Citations:regular

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Her hair of a shining raven black, and curiously braided; her eyes were dark, but gentle, although animated; her features of a regular proportion, and her complexion wondrously fair, each cheek tinged with a lovely pink.

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Citations:regulate

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I may there discover the wondrous power which attracts the needle and may regulate a thousand celestial observations that require only this voyage to render their seeming eccentricities consistent forever.
 * 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.

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Citations:reiterating

 * 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:rejoice

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * 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."
 * This made David rejoice when in the Valley of the Shadow of Death; and Moses was rather for dying where he stood, than to go one step without his God.
 * In this land also, the contract between the bride and the bridegroom was renewed; yea, here, "As the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so did their God rejoice over them."

 * 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.

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Citations:relative

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I felt the greatest ardour for virtue rise within me, and abhorrence for vice, as far as I understood the signification of those terms, relative as they were, as I applied them, to pleasure and pain alone.
 * Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geography had not been omitted; I had learned from these the relative situations of the different countries of the earth.

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Citations:relatives

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Besides, the strange nature of the animal would elude all pursuit, even if I were so far credited as to persuade my relatives to commence it.

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Citations:relics

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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:relinquish

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I gave several hours to the serious consideration of this difficulty, but I was obliged to relinquish all attempt to supply it, and wrapping myself up in my cloak, I struck across the wood towards the setting sun.

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Citations:remarkable

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The master is a person of an excellent disposition and is remarkable in the ship for his gentleness and the mildness of his discipline.
 * She wept when she quitted our house; she was much altered since the death of my aunt; grief had given softness and a winning mildness to her manners, which had before been remarkable for vivacity.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, upon his own ramparts, than there would be in any other middle-aged gentleman rashly turning out after dark in a breezy spot — say Saint Paul's Churchyard for instance — literally to astonish his son's weak mind.
 * It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.
 * There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.

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Citations:reminds

 * 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.
 * He reminds me how often the same accidents have happened to other navigators who have attempted this sea, and in spite of myself, he fills me with cheerful auguries.

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Citations:remnants

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I greedily devoured the remnants of the shepherd's breakfast, which consisted of bread, cheese, milk, and wine; the latter, however, I did not like.

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Citations:removed

 * 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:removes

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It removes more than half my misfortune, and I feel as if I could die in peace now that my innocence is acknowledged by you, dear lady, and your cousin."

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Citations:renewing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The idea of renewing my labours did not for one instant occur to me; the threat I had heard weighed on my thoughts, but I did not reflect that a voluntary act of mine could avert it.

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Citations:repetition

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When they separated Felix kissed the hand of the stranger and said, 'Good night sweet Safie.' He sat up much longer, conversing with his father, and by the frequent repetition of her name I conjectured that their lovely guest was the subject of their conversation.

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Citations:replace

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived."
 * "I thank you, Walton," he said, "for your kind intentions towards so miserable a wretch; but when you speak of new ties and fresh affections, think you that any can replace those who are gone?

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Citations:reported

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But he has already recovered his spirits, and is reported to be on the point of marrying a lively pretty Frenchwoman, Madame Tavernier.

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Citations:represented

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

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner," said the gentleman, presenting his credentials.

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Citations:reprobated

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I returned home not disappointed, for I have said that I had long considered those authors useless whom the professor reprobated; but I returned not at all the more inclined to recur to these studies in any shape.

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Citations:reproduce

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

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Citations:repugnance

 * 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.
 * He could not help regarding my exclamation as a presumption of my guilt and said in rather a severe tone, "I should have thought, young man, that the presence of your father would have been welcome instead of inspiring such violent repugnance."

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Citations:repulsive

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Krempe was a little squat man with a gruff voice and a repulsive countenance; the teacher, therefore, did not prepossess me in favour of his pursuits.
 * Krempe a great deal of sound sense and real information, combined, it is true, with a repulsive physiognomy and manners, but not on that account the less valuable.
 * They were my brethren, my fellow beings, and I felt attracted even to the most repulsive among them, as to creatures of an angelic nature and celestial mechanism.

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Citations:reread

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I read and reread her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope.

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Citations:reserved

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I see by your eagerness and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be informed of the secret with which I am acquainted; that cannot be; listen patiently until the end of my story, and you will easily perceive why I am reserved upon that subject.
 * 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.
 * Surely in that moment I should have been possessed by frenzy and have destroyed my miserable existence but that my vow was heard and that I was reserved for vengeance.

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Citations:resigned

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Neither will it out of my mind, but that that man that takes up religion for the world, will throw away religion for the world; for so surely as Judas resigned the world in becoming religious, so surely did he also sell religion and his Master for the same.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

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Citations:respected

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * A man might be respected with only one of these advantages, but without either he was considered, except in very rare instances, as a vagabond and a slave, doomed to waste his powers for the profits of the chosen few!
 * He was descended from a good family in France, where he had lived for many years in affluence, respected by his superiors and beloved by his equals.

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Citations:retard

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.

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Citations:retribution

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I cannot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have endured misery which nothing but the eternal sentiment of a just retribution burning within my heart could have enabled me to support.

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Citations:reverential

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The passionate and almost reverential attachment with which all regarded her became, while I shared it, my pride and my delight.

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Citations:reverie

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * This idea plunged me into a reverie so despairing and frightful that even now, when the scene is on the point of closing before me forever, I shudder to reflect on it.
 * But her temper was fluctuating; joy for a few instants shone in her eyes, but it continually gave place to distraction and reverie.

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Citations:rich

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Suppose such a one to have but a poor employ in the world, but by becoming religious, he may mend his market, perhaps get a rich wife, or more and far better customers to his shop; for my part, I see no reason but that this may be lawfully done.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They did not appear rich, but they were contented and happy; their feelings were serene and peaceful, while mine became every day more tumultuous.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He rubbed his hands; adjusted his capacious waistcoat; laughed all over himself, from his shoes to his organ of benevolence; and called out in a comfortable, oily, rich, fat, jovial voice:
 * The Spirit stood beside sick beds, and they were cheerful; on foreign lands, and they were close at home; by struggling men, and they were patient in their greater hope; by poverty, and it was rich.

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Citations:ridicule

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * ...why, he objected against religion itself; he said it was a pitiful, low, sneaking business for a man to mind religion; he said that a tender conscience was an unmanly thing; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways, so as to tie up himself from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto, would make him the ridicule of the times.

 * 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:roots

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She afterwards continued her work, whilst the young man went into the garden and appeared busily employed in digging and pulling up roots.
 * I had been accustomed, during the night, to steal a part of their store for my own consumption, but when I found that in doing this I inflicted pain on the cottagers, I abstained and satisfied myself with berries, nuts, and roots which I gathered from a neighbouring wood.

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Citations:rudder

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * But it refreshed me and filled me with such agreeable sensations that I resolved to prolong my stay on the water, and fixing the rudder in a direct position, stretched myself at the bottom of the boat.
 * But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.

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Citations:rugged

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.
 * Immense and rugged mountains of ice often barred up my passage, and I often heard the thunder of the ground sea, which threatened my destruction.

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Citations:running

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then said Good-will, Alas, poor man! is the celestial glory of so small esteem with him, that he counteth it not worth running the hazards of a few difficulties to obtain it?
 * I looked, then, after Christian, to see him go up the hill, where I perceived he fell from running to going, and from going to clambering upon his hands and his knees, because of the steepness of the place.
 * Now, when he was got up to the top of the hill, there came two men running to meet him amain; the name of the one was Timorous, and of the other, Mistrust; to whom Christian said, Sirs, what's the matter?

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I was scarcely hid when a young girl came running towards the spot where I was concealed, laughing, as if she ran from someone in sport.
 * "At this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflection, which was disturbed by the approach of a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen, with all the sportiveness of infancy.
 * I rushed towards the window, and drawing a pistol from my bosom, fired; but he eluded me, leaped from his station, and running with the swiftness of lightning, plunged into the lake.

 * 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.
 * There all the children of the house were running out into the snow to meet their married sisters, brothers, cousins, uncles, aunts, and be the first to greet them.

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Citations:rushing

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * With that he looked ugly upon them, and, rushing to them, had doubtless made an end of them himself, but that he fell into one of his fits, (for he sometimes, in sunshiny weather, fell into fits), and lost for a time the use of his hand; wherefore he withdrew, and left them as before, to consider what to do.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * For a short space of time I remained at the window watching the pallid lightnings that played above Mont Blanc and listening to the rushing of the Arve, which pursued its noisy way beneath.
 * In one spot you view rugged hills, ruined castles overlooking tremendous precipices, with the dark Rhine rushing beneath; and on the sudden turn of a promontory, flourishing vineyards with green sloping banks and a meandering river and populous towns occupy the scene.

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Citations:rustic

 * 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.
 * She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person from whom she had playfully fled.

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Citations:sailed

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore.
 * At one time the moon, which had before been clear, was suddenly overspread by a thick cloud, and I took advantage of the moment of darkness and cast my basket into the sea; I listened to the gurgling sound as it sank and then sailed away from the spot.

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Citations:sang

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Thus they discoursed together till late at night; and after they had committed themselves to their Lord for protection, they betook themselves to rest: the Pilgrim they laid in a large upper chamber, whose window opened towards the sun-rising:  the name of the chamber was Peace; where he slept till break of day, and then he awoke and sang —
 * Then I heard in my dream that all the bells in the city rang again for joy, and that it was said unto them, "ENTER YE INTO THE JOY OF YOUR LORD." I also heard the men themselves, that they sang with a loud voice, saying, "BLESSING AND HONOUR, AND GLORY, AND POWER, BE UNTO HIM THAT SITTETH UPON THE THRONE, AND UNTO THE LAMB, FOR EVER AND EVER." Rev.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * They conversed with one another through the means of an interpreter, and sometimes with the interpretation of looks; and Safie sang to him the divine airs of her native country.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * All this time the chestnuts and the jug went round and round; and by-and-bye they had a song, about a lost child travelling in the snow, from Tiny Tim, who had a plaintive little voice, and sang it very well indeed.

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 * 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:saying

Present Participle of Say

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Now, I saw in my dream, that by this time Pliable was got home to his house again, so that his neighbours came to visit him; and some of them called him wise man for coming back, and some called him fool for hazarding himself with Christian: others again did mock at his cowardliness; saying, Surely, since you began to venture, I would not have been so base to have given out for a few difficulties.
 * Then Christian fell down at his feet as dead, crying, "Woe is me, for I am undone!" At the sight of which Evangelist caught him by the right hand, saying, "All manner of sin and blasphemies shall be forgiven unto men." [Matt. 12:31, Mark 3:28] "Be not faithless, but believing." [John 20:27] Then did Christian again a little revive, and stood up trembling, as at first, before Evangelist.
 * At last, when every man started back for fear of the armed men, Christian saw a man of a very stout countenance come up to the man that sat there to write, saying, Set down my name, Sir: the which when he had done, he saw the man draw his sword, and put a helmet upon his head, and rush toward the door upon the armed men, who laid upon him with deadly force; but the man, not at all discouraged, fell to cutting and hacking most fiercely.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * So saying, he stepped aside and wrote down a list of several books treating of natural philosophy which he desired me to procure, and dismissed me after mentioning that in the beginning of the following week he intended to commence a course of lectures upon natural philosophy in its general relations, and that M.
 * The servant instantly showed it to one of the others, who, without saying a word to any of the family, went to a magistrate; and, upon their deposition, Justine was apprehended.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He may rail at Christmas till he dies, but he can't help thinking better of it — I defy him — if he finds me going there, in good temper, year after year, and saying Uncle Scrooge, how are you?

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Citations:schools

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century; but while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was, to a great degree, self-taught with regard to my favourite studies.
 * I had hitherto attended the schools of Geneva, but my father thought it necessary for the completion of my education that I should be made acquainted with other customs than those of my native country.

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Citations:scientific

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

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Citations:scoffing

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

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Citations:sealed

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * I will tell you, moreover, that I had then given me a roll, sealed, to comfort me by reading as I go on the way; I was also bid to give it in at the Celestial Gate, in token of my certain going in after it; all which things, I doubt, you want, and want them because you came not in at the gate.
 * 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.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I saw an insurmountable barrier placed between me and my fellow men; this barrier was sealed with the blood of William and Justine, and to reflect on the events connected with those names filled my soul with anguish.

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Citations:seamen

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Well, these are useless complaints; I shall certainly find no friend on the wide ocean, nor even here in Archangel, among merchants and seamen.

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Citations:secluded

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Study had before secluded me from the intercourse of my fellow-creatures, and rendered me unsocial; but Clerval called forth the better feelings of my heart; he again taught me to love the aspect of nature, and the cheerful faces of children.
 * "While I was overcome by these feelings, I left the spot where I had committed the murder, and seeking a more secluded hiding-place, I entered a barn which had appeared to me to be empty.

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Citations:secondary

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

 * 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:self-taught

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It may appear strange that such should arise in the eighteenth century; but while I followed the routine of education in the schools of Geneva, I was, to a great degree, self-taught with regard to my favourite studies.

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Citations:self-violence

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

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Citations:senseless

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person from whom she had playfully fled.
 * I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.

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Citations:sentence

 * 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * Simon the witch was of this religion too; for he would have had the Holy Ghost, that he might have got money therewith; and his sentence from Peter's mouth was according. [Acts 8:19-22]
 * Then said Christian to his fellow, If these men cannot stand before the sentence of men, what will they do with the sentence of God?
 * So they consented to erect there a pillar, and to engrave upon the side thereof this sentence — "Over this stile is the way to Doubting Castle, which is kept by Giant Despair, who despiseth the King of the Celestial Country, and seeks to destroy his holy pilgrims." Many, therefore, that followed after read what was written, and escaped the danger.

 * 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
 * The injustice of his sentence was very flagrant; all Paris was indignant; and it was judged that his religion and wealth rather than the crime alleged against him had been the cause of his condemnation.
 * After many fruitless attempts to gain admittance to the prison, he found a strongly grated window in an unguarded part of the building, which lighted the dungeon of the unfortunate Muhammadan, who, loaded with chains, waited in despair the execution of the barbarous sentence.
 * This letter revived in my memory what I had before forgotten, the threat of the fiend — "I WILL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT!" Such was my sentence, and on that night would the daemon employ every art to destroy me and tear me from the glimpse of happiness which promised partly to console my sufferings.

sentenced X upon

 * 1977, Eugene B. Meier, How was the Acculturation of Children of Alt Lutheraner Descent in Wisconsin 1843 - 1915 Affected by the Relationship of Home and Market?: A Case Study, page 150:
 * So as far as the older generation of German Lutherans were concerned, the abolition of the mother language sentenced death upon the church as they knew it.
 * 1991, Joe Wayman, If You Promise Not to Tell, Pieces of Learning (ISBN 9781880505151), page 36:
 * But little did I know, As I cleared away that snow, I'd sentenced death upon that rose, For late that night it simply froze. I'd taken its one chance away, As I stripped it of its quilt that day. I learned a lesson late that night, ...

sentence death (legal contexts)

 * 1874, Ella Taylor Disosway, South Meadows: A Tale of Long Ago, page 235:
 * “We are empowered to deliver thee to prison; yea, the law commands us to sentence death upon the abettors of this mischief. As guardians of the public weal, and in consideration and compassion for the afflicted, we would in duty "
 * 1996, United States. Court of Appeals (9th Circuit), Annual Report of the Ninth Circuit, page 137:
 * upholding Idaho statute mandating that court "shall" sentence death upon finding an aggravating circumstance "unless" it finds outweighing mitigating circumstances because satisfies individualized sentencing requirement

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Citations:seriousness

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

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Citations:servants

 * 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]
 * Thou hast done in this, according to the proverb, "Changed a bad for a worse"; but it is ordinary for those that have professed themselves his servants, after a while to give him the slip, and return again to me.
 * What I promised thee was in my nonage; and, besides, I count the Prince under whose banner now I stand is able to absolve me; yea, and to pardon also what I did as to my compliance with thee; and besides, O thou destroying Apollyon! to speak truth, I like his service, his wages, his servants, his government, his company, and country, better than thine; and, therefore, leave off to persuade me further; I am his servant, and I will follow him.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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:serving

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

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Citations:shades

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I knelt on the grass and kissed the earth and with quivering lips exclaimed, "By the sacred earth on which I kneel, by the shades that wander near me, by the deep and eternal grief that I feel, I swear; and by thee, O Night, and the spirits that preside over thee, to pursue the daemon who caused this misery, until he or I shall perish in mortal conflict.
 * Let the cursed and hellish monster drink deep of agony; let him feel the despair that now torments me." I had begun my adjuration with solemnity and an awe which almost assured me that the shades of my murdered friends heard and approved my devotion, but the furies possessed me as I concluded, and rage choked my utterance.

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Citations:shells

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.

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Citations:shepherd

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "It was about seven in the morning, and I longed to obtain food and shelter; at length I perceived a small hut, on a rising ground, which had doubtless been built for the convenience of some shepherd.

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Citations:shrieked

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.
 * 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.
 * Sometimes he commanded his countenance and tones and related the most horrible incidents with a tranquil voice, suppressing every mark of agitation; then, like a volcano bursting forth, his face would suddenly change to an expression of the wildest rage as he shrieked out imprecations on his persecutor.

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Citations:shrill

Adjective

 * 1) High-pitched and piercing.

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Citations:shuddered

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I shuddered when I thought of the possible consequences of my consent, but I felt that there was some justice in his argument.
 * I had before been moved by the sophisms of the being I had created; I had been struck senseless by his fiendish threats; but now, for the first time, the wickedness of my promise burst upon me; I shuddered to think that future ages might curse me as their pest, whose selfishness had not hesitated to buy its own peace at the price, perhaps, of the existence of the whole human race.
 * Yet, before I departed, there was a task to perform, on which I shuddered to reflect; I must pack up my chemical instruments, and for that purpose I must enter the room which had been the scene of my odious work, and I must handle those utensils the sight of which was sickening to me.

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Citations:signification

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I afterwards found that these labours, performed by an invisible hand, greatly astonished them; and once or twice I heard them, on these occasions, utter the words 'good spirit,' 'wonderful'; but I did not then understand the signification of these terms.
 * I felt the greatest ardour for virtue rise within me, and abhorrence for vice, as far as I understood the signification of those terms, relative as they were, as I applied them, to pleasure and pain alone.

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Citations:similar

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I found myself similar yet at the same time strangely unlike to the beings concerning whom I read and to whose conversation I was a listener.

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Citations:sir

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * When she saw who it was, she approached me and said, "Dear sir, you are very kind to visit me; you, I hope, do not believe that I am guilty?"
 * I then moved forward, and a murmuring sound arose from the crowd as they followed and surrounded me, when an ill-looking man approaching tapped me on the shoulder and said, "Come, sir, you must follow me to Mr.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * He looked so irresistibly pleasant, in a word, that three or four good-humoured fellows said, "Good morning, sir! A merry Christmas to you!" And Scrooge said often afterwards, that of all the blithe sounds he had ever heard, those were the blithest in his ears.
 * "My dear sir," said Scrooge, quickening his pace, and taking the old gentleman by both his hands. "How do you do? I hope you succeeded yesterday.
 * "It's only once a year, sir," pleaded Bob, appearing from the Tank. "It shall not be repeated. I was making rather merry yesterday, sir."

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Citations:situations

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * My ancestors had been for many years counsellors and syndics, and my father had filled several public situations with honour and reputation.
 * Among the lessons that Felix had bestowed upon Safie, geography had not been omitted; I had learned from these the relative situations of the different countries of the earth.

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Citations:skiff

 * 1818, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein:
 * Between two and three in the morning the moon rose; and I then, putting my basket aboard a little skiff, sailed out about four miles from the shore.

 * 2002, Branwen Christine Patenaude, Ruby Red and Goldrush Yellow, Trafford Publishing (ISBN 9781553698395), page 116:
 * As they started south for Williams Lake a skiff of sleet fell and with it a cold wind from the north, a forewarning of winter's arrival. On reaching Beaver Lake, they stopped in at D'Orsay and Deschilles roadhouse that had been built that summer.

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Citations:skirted

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "I continued to wind among the paths of the wood, until I came to its boundary, which was skirted by a deep and rapid river, into which many of the trees bent their branches, now budding with the fresh spring.

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Citations:slaughter

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

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Citations:slenderly

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had no compass with me and was so slenderly acquainted with the geography of this part of the world that the sun was of little benefit to me.

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Citations:slipped

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She continued her course along the precipitous sides of the river, when suddenly her foot slipped, and she fell into the rapid stream.

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Citations:sloping

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

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

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Tanabe

Translations

 * Arabic: تانابي, تانابه
 * Bulgarian: Танабе
 * German: Tanabe
 * Greek:
 * Japanese: 田辺
 * Korean: 다나베
 * Marathi: तानाबे
 * Russian: Танабэ,

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Citations:soar

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * It had then filled me with a sublime ecstasy that gave wings to the soul and allowed it to soar from the obscure world to light and joy.

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Citations:softened

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I read and reread her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope.
 * And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived."

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * When this strain of music sounded, all the things that Ghost had shown him, came upon his mind; he softened more and more; and thought that if he could have listened to it often, years ago, he might have cultivated the kindnesses of life for his own happiness with his own hands, without resorting to the sexton's spade that buried Jacob Marley.

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Citations:softness

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * She wept when she quitted our house; she was much altered since the death of my aunt; grief had given softness and a winning mildness to her manners, which had before been remarkable for vivacity.

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Citations:soldier

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

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Citations:solemnizing

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The sight of the awful and majestic in nature had indeed always the effect of solemnizing my mind and causing me to forget the passing cares of life.

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Citations:solitudes

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Its productions and features may be without example, as the phenomena of the heavenly bodies undoubtedly are in those undiscovered solitudes.

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Citations:sounding

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * And I will add another thing: Paul calleth some men, yea, and those great talkers, too, sounding brass and tinkling cymbals; that is, as he expounds them in another place, things without life, giving sound.
 * This done, they compassed them round on every side; some went before, some behind, and some on the right hand, some on the left, as it were to guard them through the upper regions), continually sounding as they went, with melodious noise, in notes on high: so that the very sight was, to them that could behold it, as if heaven itself was come down to meet them.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * — — The sounding cataract Haunted him like a passion:  the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to him An appetite; a feeling, and a love, That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, or any interest Unborrow'd from the eye.

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Citations:soundly

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Yes, Christian, I heard that he followed you till he came at the Slough of Despond, where, as some said, he fell in; but he would not be known to have so done; but I am sure he was soundly bedabbled with that kind of dirt.
 * Yea, Heman, and Hezekiah, too, though champions in their day, were forced to bestir them, when by these assaulted; and yet, notwithstanding, they had their coats soundly brushed by them.

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

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Citations:south

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

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I thought of pursuing the devil; but it would have been in vain, for another flash discovered him to me hanging among the rocks of the nearly perpendicular ascent of Mont Saleve, a hill that bounds Plainpalais on the south.
 * But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south.
 * The ice cracked behind us and was driven with force towards the north; a breeze sprang from the west, and on the 11th the passage towards the south became perfectly free.

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Citations:southwards

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had determined, if you were going southwards, still to trust myself to the mercy of the seas rather than abandon my purpose.
 * 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:speck

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * 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:spite

 * 2020, Andy Greenberg, US Indicts Sandworm, Russia's Most Destructive Cyberwar Unit, Wired.com (19 October 2020);
 * “No country has weaponized its cyber capabilities as maliciously or irresponsibly as Russia, wantonly causing unprecedented damage to pursue small tactical advantages and to satisfy fits of spite,” assistant attorney general John Demers said in a statement.

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Citations:split

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The wind arose; the sea roared; and, as with the mighty shock of an earthquake, it split and cracked with a tremendous and overwhelming sound.
 * September 9th, the ice began to move, and roarings like thunder were heard at a distance as the islands split and cracked in every direction.

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Citations:spoken

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then Talkative at first began to blush; but, recovering himself, thus he replied: You come now to experience, to conscience, and God; and to appeal to him for justification of what is spoken.
 * Envy hath spoken, I never said aught but this, That what rule, or laws, or customs, or people, were flat against the Word of God, are diametrically opposite to Christianity.
 * They went then till they came to the Delectable Mountains, which mountains belong to the Lord of that hill of which we have spoken before; so they went up to the mountains, to behold the gardens and orchards, the vineyards and fountains of water; where also they drank and washed themselves, and did freely eat of the vineyards.

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * He might have spoken, but I did not hear; one hand was stretched out, seemingly to detain me, but I escaped and rushed downstairs.
 * "My days were spent in close attention, that I might more speedily master the language; and I may boast that I improved more rapidly than the Arabian, who understood very little and conversed in broken accents, whilst I comprehended and could imitate almost every word that was spoken.
 * Indeed, as the period approached, the threat appeared more as a delusion, not to be regarded as worthy to disturb my peace, while the happiness I hoped for in my marriage wore a greater appearance of certainty as the day fixed for its solemnization drew nearer and I heard it continually spoken of as an occurrence which no accident could possibly prevent.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * But the whole scene passed off in the breath of the last word spoken by his nephew; and he and the Spirit were again upon their travels.
 * While he did this, the woman who had already spoken threw her bundle on the floor, and sat down in a flaunting manner on a stool; crossing her elbows on her knees, and looking with a bold defiance at the other two.

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Citations:sportiveness

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * "At this time a slight sleep relieved me from the pain of reflection, which was disturbed by the approach of a beautiful child, who came running into the recess I had chosen, with all the sportiveness of infancy.

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Citations:spots

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

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Citations:spurred

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Then I spurred on my animal, striving so to forget the world, my fears, and more than all, myself — or, in a more desperate fashion, I alighted and threw myself on the grass, weighed down by horror and despair.

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Citations:started

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * At last, when every man started back for fear of the armed men, Christian saw a man of a very stout countenance come up to the man that sat there to write, saying, Set down my name, Sir: the which when he had done, he saw the man draw his sword, and put a helmet upon his head, and rush toward the door upon the armed men, who laid upon him with deadly force; but the man, not at all discouraged, fell to cutting and hacking most fiercely.

 * 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.
 * At first I started back, unable to believe that it was indeed I who was reflected in the mirror; and when I became fully convinced that I was in reality the monster that I am, I was filled with the bitterest sensations of despondence and mortification.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * She was expecting some one, and with anxious eagerness; for she walked up and down the room; started at every sound; looked out from the window; glanced at the clock; tried, but in vain, to work with her needle; and could hardly bear the voices of the children in their play.

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Citations:starvation

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted around me.
 * The peasants were shut up in their hovels, and only a few of the most hardy ventured forth to seize the animals whom starvation had forced from their hiding-places to seek for prey.

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Citations:station

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * I had often, when at home, thought it hard to remain during my youth cooped up in one place and had longed to enter the world and take my station among other human beings.
 * I rushed towards the window, and drawing a pistol from my bosom, fired; but he eluded me, leaped from his station, and running with the swiftness of lightning, plunged into the lake.

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Citations:steeple

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * Morning, dismal and wet, at length dawned and discovered to my sleepless and aching eyes the church of Ingolstadt, its white steeple and clock, which indicated the sixth hour.
 * I carefully traced the windings of the land and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory.

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Citations:stirred

 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * 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]

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * The thought was madness; it stirred the fiend within me — not I, but she, shall suffer; the murder I have committed because I am forever robbed of all that she could give me, she shall atone.
 * The stars shone at intervals as the clouds passed from over them; the dark pines rose before me, and every here and there a broken tree lay on the ground; it was a scene of wonderful solemnity and stirred strange thoughts within me.

 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * The Lord Mayor, in the stronghold of the mighty Mansion House, gave orders to his fifty cooks and butlers to keep Christmas as a Lord Mayor's household should; and even the little tailor, whom he had fined five shillings on the previous Monday for being drunk and bloodthirsty in the streets, stirred up to-morrow's pudding in his garret, while his lean wife and the baby sallied out to buy the beef.
 * The hair was curiously stirred, as if by breath or hot air; and, though the eyes were wide open, they were perfectly motionless.

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Citations:stole

 * 1818 — Mary Shelley. Frankenstein.
 * this is thy funeral, this thy dirge!" As I said these words, I perceived in the gloom a figure which stole from behind a clump of trees near me; I stood fixed, gazing intently: I could not be mistaken.
 * I left the house, the horrid scene of the last night's contention, and walked on the beach of the sea, which I almost regarded as an insuperable barrier between me and my fellow creatures; nay, a wish that such should prove the fact stole across me.
 * I read and reread her letter, and some softened feelings stole into my heart and dared to whisper paradisiacal dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope.

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