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1  He threw off all assistance, and stepped passionately forward a pace before the woman and the children.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
2  The decision once made, a glow of strange enjoyment threw its flickering brightness over the trouble of his breast.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
3  It was whispered by those who peered after her that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
4  So speaking, she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the withered leaves.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
5  Finding it as impossible to touch her as to catch a humming-bird in the air, he took from his hat the gold chain that was twisted about it, and threw it to the child.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
6  With sudden and desperate tenderness she threw her arms around him, and pressed his head against her bosom, little caring though his cheek rested on the scarlet letter.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
7  The child probably overheard their voices, for, looking up to the window with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Rev.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
8  Then she took up the white foam that streaked the line of the advancing tide, and threw it upon the breeze, scampering after it with winged footsteps to catch the great snowflakes ere they fell.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
9  But Old Roger Chillingworth, too, had perceptions that were almost intuitive; and when the minister threw his startled eyes towards him, there the physician sat; his kind, watchful, sympathising, but never intrusive friend.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
10  The emotion of that brief space, while she stood gazing after the crooked figure of old Roger Chillingworth, threw a dark light on Hester's state of mind, revealing much that she might not otherwise have acknowledged to herself.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
11  Thus the night fled away, as if it were a winged steed, and he careering on it; morning came, and peeped, blushing, through the curtains; and at last sunrise threw a golden beam into the study, and laid it right across the minister's bedazzled eyes.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
12  It threw a gleam of recognition, on here a post, and there a garden fence, and here a latticed window-pane, and there a pump, with its full trough of water, and here again an arched door of oak, with an iron knocker, and a rough log for the door-step.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
13  She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
14  As the minister departed, in advance of Hester Prynne and little Pearl, he threw a backward glance, half expecting that he should discover only some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly fading into the twilight of the woods.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
15  None so ready as she to give of her little substance to every demand of poverty, even though the bitter-hearted pauper threw back a gibe in requital of the food brought regularly to his door, or the garments wrought for him by the fingers that could have embroidered a monarch's robe.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER