All 17 Uses of
dwell
in
Frankenstein
- Even now, as I commence my task, his full-toned voice swells in my ears; his lustrous eyes dwell on me with all their melancholy sweetness; I see his thin hand raised in animation, while the lineaments of his face are irradiated by the soul within.
Chpt Intr. (definition 1)dwell = focus (keep attention)
- I feel exquisite pleasure in dwelling on the recollections of childhood, before misfortune had tainted my mind and changed its bright visions of extensive usefulness into gloomy and narrow reflections upon self.
Chpt 2 (definition 1) *dwelling = letting attention stay (on something)
- I fear, my friend, that I shall render myself tedious by dwelling on these preliminary circumstances; but they were days of comparative happiness, and I think of them with pleasure.
Chpt 7 (definition 1)dwelling = continuing to talk (about something)
- I have wandered here many days; the caves of ice, which I only do not fear, are a dwelling to me, and the only one which man does not grudge.
Chpt 10 (definition 2)dwelling = home
- Having thus arranged my dwelling and carpeted it with clean straw, I retired, for I saw the figure of a man at a distance, and I remembered too well my treatment the night before to trust myself in his power.
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- On examining my dwelling, I found that one of the windows of the cottage had formerly occupied a part of it, but the panes had been filled up with wood.
Chpt 11 (definition 2) *
- I revolved many projects, but that on which I finally fixed was to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone.
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- "You propose," replied I, "to fly from the habitations of man, to dwell in those wilds where the beasts of the field will be your only companions."
Chpt 17 (definition 3) *dwell = live
- I swear to you, by the earth which I inhabit, and by you that made me, that with the companion you bestow I will quit the neighbourhood of man and dwell, as it may chance, in the most savage of places.
Chpt 17 (definition 3)dwell = live (make home)
- Even now it delights me to record your words and to dwell on the praise of which you are so eminently deserving.
Chpt 18 (definition 1)dwell = think longer
- Clerval eagerly desired to accept this invitation, and I, although I abhorred society, wished to view again mountains and streams and all the wondrous works with which Nature adorns her chosen dwelling-places.
Chpt 19 (definition 3)dwelling = living
- The spirit of elder days found a dwelling here, and we delighted to trace its footsteps.
Chpt 19 (definition 2)dwelling = home
- I trembled from head to foot; I felt a presentiment of who it was and wished to rouse one of the peasants who dwelt in a cottage not far from mine; but I was overcome by the sensation of helplessness, so often felt in frightful dreams, when you in vain endeavour to fly from an impending danger, and was rooted to the spot.
Chpt 20 (definition 3)dwelt = lived
- I have dwelt many months in the heaths of England and among the deserts of Scotland.
Chpt 20 (definition 3)
- My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interesting to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness.
Chpt 21 (definition 1)dwelling = letting attention stay (on something)
- As time passed away I became more calm; misery had her dwelling in my heart, but I no longer talked in the same incoherent manner of my own crimes; sufficient for me was the consciousness of them.
Chpt 22 (definition 2)dwelling = home (figurative)
- But why should I dwell upon the incidents that followed this last overwhelming event?
Chpt 23 (definition 1)dwell = let attention stay (on something)
Definitions:
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(1) (dwell as in: Don't dwell on it.) to think, communicate, or let attention stay on (or return to) something for a prolonged period
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(2) (dwelling as in: a modest dwelling) a house or shelter in which someone lives
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(3) (dwell as in: It dwells in the forest.) make one's home in; or to live in; or to stay (in a place)