1 Your arrival, my dear cousin," said she, "fills me with hope.
2 The arrival of the Arabian now infused new life into his soul.
3 But I was impatient to arrive at the termination of my journey.
4 In about a week after the arrival of Elizabeth's letter we returned to Geneva.
5 However, it was hardly morning, and I might reasonably hope to arrive by night.
6 Nothing, at this moment, could have given me greater pleasure than the arrival of my father.
7 I revolved rapidly in my mind a multitude of thoughts and endeavoured to arrive at some conclusion.
8 As I could not pass through the town, I was obliged to cross the lake in a boat to arrive at Plainpalais.
9 Soon after my arrival in the hovel I discovered some papers in the pocket of the dress which I had taken from your laboratory.
10 While I was thus engaged, Ernest entered: he had heard me arrive, and hastened to welcome me: "Welcome, my dearest Victor," said he.
11 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.
12 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.
13 My destruction might indeed arrive a few months sooner, but if my torturer should suspect that I postponed it, influenced by his menaces, he would surely find other and perhaps more dreadful means of revenge.
14 In this expedition we did not intend to follow the great road to Edinburgh, but to visit Windsor, Oxford, Matlock, and the Cumberland lakes, resolving to arrive at the completion of this tour about the end of July.
15 A few months before my arrival they had lived in a large and luxurious city called Paris, surrounded by friends and possessed of every enjoyment which virtue, refinement of intellect, or taste, accompanied by a moderate fortune, could afford.
16 Clerval at first attributed my unusual spirits to joy on his arrival, but when he observed me more attentively, he saw a wildness in my eyes for which he could not account, and my loud, unrestrained, heartless laughter frightened and astonished him.
17 A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study; and I, who continually sought the attainment of one object of pursuit and was solely wrapped up in this, improved so rapidly that at the end of two years I made some discoveries in the improvement of some chemical instruments, which procured me great esteem and admiration at the university.
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