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    The earnestness with which, for Victor's edification, Alphonse Frankenstein repeats
    Benjamin Franklin's famous experiment of 1746 with a kite, a string, and a key has
    a droll aspect to it. He is never to know what his demonstrations will wreak in Victor's
    subsequent experiments with electricity.

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  • 1878 Bosw. Smith Carthage 26 Indications . . . in thorough keeping with the view we
    have taken.

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  • 1841 Myers Cath. Th. iii. v. 14 Such an utterance of Truth would . . . be out of keeping
    with our present condition in the flesh.

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  • 1841 Lever C. O'Malley iv. 24 His own costume of black coat, leathers and tops, was
    in perfect keeping.

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  • 1830 Blackw. Mag. XXVII. 310 It is in `fine keeping', as the phrase is.

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  • 1824 Miss Ferrier Inher. xlvii, To use an artist phrase, nothing could be more in
    keeping with the day than the reception Miss S. met with.

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  • 1806 F. Horner Let. in Life vii. (1849) 175 They were so in keeping with the whole
    that the prevailing tone was..never interrupted.

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  • C. 1790 Imison Sch. Art II. 59 In what respect it is out of keeping; that is, what
    parts are too light, and what too dark.

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  • 1870 Lowell Study Wind. 406 For wit, fancy, invention, and keeping, it [the Rape of
    the Lock] has never been surpassed.

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  • 1819 Hazlitt Eng. Com. Writers vi. (1869) 153 There is the exquisite keeping in the
    character of Blifil, and the want of it in that of Tom Jones.
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