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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 The lady was dressed in a dark suit and covered with a thick black veil.
2 The ballots had been thrown; they were all black, and Justine was condemned.
3 I discovered more distinctly the black sides of Jura, and the bright summit of Mont Blanc.
4 As my sickness quitted me, I was absorbed by a gloomy and black melancholy that nothing could dissipate.
5 We saw many ruined castles standing on the edges of precipices, surrounded by black woods, high and inaccessible.
6 He had apparently been strangled, for there was no sign of any violence except the black mark of fingers on his neck.
7 As the sun became warmer and the light of day longer, the snow vanished, and I beheld the bare trees and the black earth.
8 I did not dare return to the apartment which I inhabited, but felt impelled to hurry on, although drenched by the rain which poured from a black and comfortless sky.
9 He appeared about fifty years of age, but with an aspect expressive of the greatest benevolence; a few grey hairs covered his temples, but those at the back of his head were nearly black.
10 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.
11 My father saw this change with pleasure, and he turned his thoughts towards the best method of eradicating the remains of my melancholy, which every now and then would return by fits, and with a devouring blackness overcast the approaching sunshine.
12 Sometimes they were the expressive eyes of Henry, languishing in death, the dark orbs nearly covered by the lids and the long black lashes that fringed them; sometimes it was the watery, clouded eyes of the monster, as I first saw them in my chamber at Ingolstadt.
13 It was eight o'clock when we landed; we walked for a short time on the shore, enjoying the transitory light, and then retired to the inn and contemplated the lovely scene of waters, woods, and mountains, obscured in darkness, yet still displaying their black outlines.