SINKING in Classic Quotes

1  The surface is very uneven, rising like the waves of a troubled sea, descending low, and interspersed by rifts that sink deep.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 10

2  Soon, oh, very soon, will death extinguish these throbbings and relieve me from the mighty weight of anguish that bears me to the dust; and, in executing the award of justice, I shall also sink to rest.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 21

3  I was ready to sink from fatigue and hunger, but being surrounded by a crowd, I thought it politic to rouse all my strength, that no physical debility might be construed into apprehension or conscious guilt.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 20

4  His feelings are forever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 19

5  You come to us now to share a misery which nothing can alleviate; yet your presence will, I hope, revive our father, who seems sinking under his misfortune; and your persuasions will induce poor Elizabeth to cease her vain and tormenting self-accusations.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

6  Once, after the poor animals that conveyed me had with incredible toil gained the summit of a sloping ice mountain, and one, sinking under his fatigue, died, I viewed the expanse before me with anguish, when suddenly my eye caught a dark speck upon the dusky plain.

Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 24