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Quotes from Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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1 My haggard and wild appearance awoke intense alarm, but I answered no question, scarcely did I speak.
2 Food, however, became scarce, and I often spent the whole day searching in vain for a few acorns to assuage the pangs of hunger.
3 She procured plain work; she plaited straw and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life.
4 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.
5 But I scarcely observed this; rage and hatred had at first deprived me of utterance, and I recovered only to overwhelm him with words expressive of furious detestation and contempt.
6 Their nourishment consisted entirely of the vegetables of their garden and the milk of one cow, which gave very little during the winter, when its masters could scarcely procure food to support it.
7 One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarcely remember to record, and I shall be well content if nothing worse happen to us during our voyage.
8 The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.