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frightening or unsettling
- Strange and harrowing must be his story, frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course and wrecked it—thus!Introductory Letters (**% in)
- I was aware also that I should often lose all self-command, all capacity of hiding the harrowing sensations that would possess me during the progress of my unearthly occupation.Chapter 18 (35% in)
There are no more uses of "harrowing" in Frankenstein.
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