All 12 Uses of
inhabitant
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- He was not, as the other traveller seemed to be, a savage inhabitant of some undiscovered island, but a European.†
p. 26.4 *inhabitant = a person (who lives in a particular place)
- Hence there is less distinction between the several classes of its inhabitants; and the lower orders, being neither so poor nor so despised, their manners are more refined and moral.†
p. 66.7inhabitants = people (who live in a particular place)
- My return had only been delayed so long, from an unwillingness to leave Clerval in a strange place, before he had become acquainted with any of its inhabitants.†
p. 70.9
- She was alarmed by this account and passed several hours in looking for him, when the gates of Geneva were shut, and she was forced to remain several hours of the night in a barn belonging to a cottage, being unwilling to call up the inhabitants, to whom she was well known.†
p. 85.1
- I heard of the discovery of the American hemisphere and wept with Safie over the hapless fate of its original inhabitants.†
p. 122.5
- The presence of Safie diffused happiness among its inhabitants, and I also found that a greater degree of plenty reigned there.†
p. 133.7
- I could with pleasure have destroyed the cottage and its inhabitants and have glutted myself with their shrieks and misery.†
p. 138.2
- We had scarcely visited the various lakes of Cumberland and Westmorland and conceived an affection for some of the inhabitants when the period of our appointment with our Scotch friend approached, and we left them to travel on.†
p. 166.9
- The soil was barren, scarcely affording pasture for a few miserable cows, and oatmeal for its inhabitants, which consisted of five persons, whose gaunt and scraggy limbs gave tokens of their miserable fare.†
p. 168.4
- I inquired of the inhabitants concerning the fiend and gained accurate information.†
p. 209.9
- A gigantic monster, they said, had arrived the night before, armed with a gun and many pistols, putting to flight the inhabitants of a solitary cottage through fear of his terrific appearance.†
p. 209.9
- He had escaped me, and I must commence a destructive and almost endless journey across the mountainous ices of the ocean, amidst cold that few of the inhabitants could long endure and which I, the native of a genial and sunny climate, could not hope to survive.†
p. 210.3
Definition:
a person who lives in a particular place