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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 I revolved rapidly in my mind a multitude of thoughts and endeavoured to arrive at some conclusion.
2 In a few minutes after, I heard the creaking of my door, as if some one endeavoured to open it softly.
3 The Turk, amazed and delighted, endeavoured to kindle the zeal of his deliverer by promises of reward and wealth.
4 He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain.
5 During our walk, Clerval endeavoured to say a few words of consolation; he could only express his heartfelt sympathy.
6 They instantly carried it to the cottage of an old woman near the spot and endeavoured, but in vain, to restore it to life.
7 I endeavoured to change my course but quickly found that if I again made the attempt the boat would be instantly filled with water.
8 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.
9 The old man, I could perceive, often endeavoured to encourage his children, as sometimes I found that he called them, to cast off their melancholy.
10 Sometimes I have endeavoured to discover what quality it is which he possesses that elevates him so immeasurably above any other person I ever knew.
11 I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured.
12 The old man appeared enraptured and said some words which Agatha endeavoured to explain to Safie, and by which he appeared to wish to express that she bestowed on him the greatest delight by her music.
13 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.
14 Agatha listened with respect, her eyes sometimes filled with tears, which she endeavoured to wipe away unperceived; but I generally found that her countenance and tone were more cheerful after having listened to the exhortations of her father.
15 The Turk quickly perceived the impression that his daughter had made on the heart of Felix and endeavoured to secure him more entirely in his interests by the promise of her hand in marriage so soon as he should be conveyed to a place of safety.
16 My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.
17 I endeavoured to crush these fears and to fortify myself for the trial which in a few months I resolved to undergo; and sometimes I allowed my thoughts, unchecked by reason, to ramble in the fields of Paradise, and dared to fancy amiable and lovely creatures sympathizing with my feelings and cheering my gloom; their angelic countenances breathed smiles of consolation.
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