Frankenstein, Or, the Modern Prometheus. [By M. W. Shelley.], Volume 1Lackington, Hughes, Harding, 1818 |
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... sledges ; the motion is pleasant , and , in my opi- nion , far more agreeable than that of an English stage - coach . The cold is not excessive , if you are wrapt in furs , a dress which I have already adopted ; for there is a great ...
... sledges ; the motion is pleasant , and , in my opi- nion , far more agreeable than that of an English stage - coach . The cold is not excessive , if you are wrapt in furs , a dress which I have already adopted ; for there is a great ...
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... sledge and drawn by dogs , pass on towards the north , at the distance of half a mile : a being which had the shape of a man , but apparently of gigantic sta- ture , sat in the sledge , and ” guided the dogs . We watched the rapid pro ...
... sledge and drawn by dogs , pass on towards the north , at the distance of half a mile : a being which had the shape of a man , but apparently of gigantic sta- ture , sat in the sledge , and ” guided the dogs . We watched the rapid pro ...
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... sledge , like that we had seen before , which had drifted towards us in the night , on a large fragment of ice . Only one dog remained alive ; but there was a human being within it , whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel ...
... sledge , like that we had seen before , which had drifted towards us in the night , on a large fragment of ice . Only one dog remained alive ; but there was a human being within it , whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel ...
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... sledge , with a man in it , across the ice . " This aroused the stranger's atten- tion ; and he asked a multitude of ques- tions concerning the route which the dæmon , as he called him , had pursued . Soon after , when he was alone with ...
... sledge , with a man in it , across the ice . " This aroused the stranger's atten- tion ; and he asked a multitude of ques- tions concerning the route which the dæmon , as he called him , had pursued . Soon after , when he was alone with ...
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... sledge ? I re- plied , that I could not answer with any degree of certainty ; for the ice had not broken until near midnight , and the traveller might have arrived at a place of safety before that time ; but of this I could not judge ...
... sledge ? I re- plied , that I could not answer with any degree of certainty ; for the ice had not broken until near midnight , and the traveller might have arrived at a place of safety before that time ; but of this I could not judge ...
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