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1  Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
2  Like all that pertains to crime, it seemed never to have known a youthful era.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In I. THE PRISON DOOR
3  So much being known, it would appear natural that a part of it should be expressed.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
4  It was a face, fiend-like, full of smiling malice, yet bearing the semblance of features that she had known full well, though seldom with a smile, and never with malice in them.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
5  Nothing was more remarkable than the change which took place, almost immediately after Mr. Dimmesdale's death, in the appearance and demeanour of the old man known as Roger Chillingworth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
6  Hester Prynne remained constant in her resolve to make known to Mr. Dimmesdale, at whatever risk of present pain or ulterior consequences, the true character of the man who had crept into his intimacy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
7  She assumed a freedom of speculation, then common enough on the other side of the Atlantic, but which our forefathers, had they known it, would have held to be a deadlier crime than that stigmatised by the scarlet letter.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
8  I might have known that, as I came out of the vast and dismal forest, and entered this settlement of Christian men, the very first object to meet my eyes would be thyself, Hester Prynne, standing up, a statue of ignominy, before the people.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
9  He was now known to be a man of skill; it was observed that he gathered herbs and the blossoms of wild-flowers, and dug up roots and plucked off twigs from the forest-trees like one acquainted with hidden virtues in what was valueless to common eyes.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
10  Those who had before known her, and had expected to behold her dimmed and obscured by a disastrous cloud, were astonished, and even startled, to perceive how her beauty shone out, and made a halo of the misfortune and ignominy in which she was enveloped.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
11  Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this venerable witch-lady had heard Mr. Dimmesdale's outcry, and interpreted it, with its multitudinous echoes and reverberations, as the clamour of the fiends and night-hags, with whom she was well known to make excursions in the forest.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL