All 7 Uses of
deed
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- This picture is gone, and was doubtless the temptation which urged the murderer to the deed.†
p. 74.7deed = a notable achievement
- I considered the being whom I had cast among mankind, and endowed with the will and power to effect purposes of horror, such as the deed which he had now done, nearly in the light of my own vampire, my own spirit let loose from the grave, and forced to destroy all that was dear to me.†
p. 78.8
- Sleep fled from my eyes; I wandered like an evil spirit, for I had committed deeds of mischief beyond description horrible, and more, much more (I persuaded myself) was yet behind.†
p. 93.3 *deeds = notable achievements
- I, not in deed, but in effect, was the true murderer.†
p. 96.5deed = a notable achievement
- But to me the remembrance of the threat returned; nor can you wonder that, omnipotent as the fiend had yet been in his deeds of blood, I should almost regard him as invincible, and that when he had pronounced the words "I SHALL BE WITH YOU ON YOUR WEDDING-NIGHT," I should regard the threatened fate as unavoidable.†
p. 195.1deeds = notable achievements
- He," he continued, pointing to the corpse, "he suffered not in the consummation of the deed.†
p. 222.3deed = a notable achievement
- I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived and long for the moment when these hands will meet my eyes, when that imagination will haunt my thoughts no more.†
p. 224.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(deed as in: signed the deed) a legal document indicating ownership of propertyThis is often in reference to a trust deed which transfers legal title of property to a trustee. Frequently, the trustee is a bank and title is entrusted to the bank until a loan is paid off.
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(2)
(deed as in: did a good deed) a notable achievement