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Definition
characteristic of rural life; simple without refined touches
- With his permission my mother prevailed on her rustic guardians to yield their charge to her.Chapter 1 (88% in)
- Her garb was rustic, and her cheek pale; but there was an air of dignity and beauty, that hardly permitted the sentiment of pity.Chapter 7 (70% in)
- She was senseless, and I endeavoured by every means in my power to restore animation, when I was suddenly interrupted by the approach of a rustic, who was probably the person from whom she had playfully fled.Chapter 16 (62% in)
- Why do you not execrate the rustic who sought to destroy the saviour of his child?Chapter 24 (92% in)
There are no more uses of "rustic" in Frankenstein.
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