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1  Pearl, seeing the rose-bushes, began to cry for a red rose, and would not be pacified.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
2  Indeed, the same dark question often rose into her mind with reference to the whole race of womanhood.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
3  His spirit rose, as it were, with a bound, and attained a nearer prospect of the sky, than throughout all the misery which had kept him grovelling on the earth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
4  Hester had schooled herself long and well; and she never responded to these attacks, save by a flush of crimson that rose irrepressibly over her pale cheek, and again subsided into the depths of her bosom.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
5  It was, in short, the platform of the pillory; and above it rose the framework of that instrument of discipline, so fashioned as to confine the human head in its tight grasp, and thus hold it up to the public gaze.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
6  This phantasy was probably suggested by the near proximity of the Governor's red roses, as Pearl stood outside of the window, together with her recollection of the prison rose-bush, which she had passed in coming hither.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
7  Now it was a herd of diabolic shapes, that grinned and mocked at the pale minister, and beckoned him away with them; now a group of shining angels, who flew upward heavily, as sorrow-laden, but grew more ethereal as they rose.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
8  Although, by a seemingly careless arrangement of his heterogeneous garb, he had endeavoured to conceal or abate the peculiarity, it was sufficiently evident to Hester Prynne that one of this man's shoulders rose higher than the other.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
9  Now she caught the low undertone, as of the wind sinking down to repose itself; then ascended with it, as it rose through progressive gradations of sweetness and power, until its volume seemed to envelop her with an atmosphere of awe and solemn grandeur.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
10  After putting her finger in her mouth, with many ungracious refusals to answer good Mr. Wilson's question, the child finally announced that she had not been made at all, but had been plucked by her mother off the bush of wild roses that grew by the prison-door.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
11  Now, during a conversation of some two or three moments between the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale and this excellent and hoary-bearded deacon, it was only by the most careful self-control that the former could refrain from uttering certain blasphemous suggestions that rose into his mind, respecting the communion-supper.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
12  Next rose before her in memory's picture-gallery, the intricate and narrow thoroughfares, the tall, grey houses, the huge cathedrals, and the public edifices, ancient in date and quaint in architecture, of a continental city; where new life had awaited her, still in connexion with the misshapen scholar: a new life, but feeding itself on time-worn materials, like a tuft of green moss on a crumbling wall.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE