All 7 Uses of
adversary
in
Frankenstein
- I resolved, therefore, that if my immediate union with my cousin would conduce either to hers or my father's happiness, my adversary's designs against my life should not retard it a single hour.†
Chpt 22
- If for one instant I had thought what might be the hellish intention of my fiendish adversary, I would rather have banished myself forever from my native country and wandered a friendless outcast over the earth than have consented to this miserable marriage.†
Chpt 22
- I was anxious and watchful, while my right hand grasped a pistol which was hidden in my bosom; every sound terrified me, but I resolved that I would sell my life dearly and not shrink from the conflict until my own life or that of my adversary was extinguished.†
Chpt 23
- She left me, and I continued some time walking up and down the passages of the house and inspecting every corner that might afford a retreat to my adversary.†
Chpt 23 *
- But revenge kept me alive; I dared not die and leave my adversary in being.†
Chpt 24
- I did not weep, but I knelt down and with a full heart thanked my guiding spirit for conducting me in safety to the place where I hoped, notwithstanding my adversary's gibe, to meet and grapple with him.†
Chpt 24
- Think not, Walton, that in the last moments of my existence I feel that burning hatred and ardent desire of revenge I once expressed; but I feel myself justified in desiring the death of my adversary.†
Chpt 24
Definition:
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(adversary) an opponent