Simile Quotes in Frankenstein

He came like a protecting spirit to the poor girl, who committed herself to his care; and after the interment of his friend he conducted her to Geneva and placed her under the protection of a relation.

The saintly soul of Elizabeth shone like a shrine-dedicated lamp in our peaceful home.

Oh! No mortal could support the horror of that countenance. A mummy again endued with animation could not be so hideous as that wretch.

The murderer discovered! Good God! how can that be? who could attempt to pursue him? It is impossible; one might as well try to overtake the winds, or confine a mountain-stream with a straw. I saw him too; he was free last night!

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.

I now also began to collect the materials necessary for my new creation, and this was to me like the torture of single drops of water continually falling on the head.

I will watch with the wiliness of a snake, that I may sting with its venom.

I walked about the isle like a restless spectre, separated from all it loved and miserable in the separation.

But I was doomed to live and in two months found myself as awaking from a dream, in a prison, stretched on a wretched bed, surrounded by gaolers, turnkeys, bolts, and all the miserable apparatus of a dungeon.