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1  He now drew back with a long respiration.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
2  He being gone, she summoned back her child.
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ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
3  "Let us not look back," answered Hester Prynne.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
4  If thou so choose, it will bear thee back again.
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ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
5  My old faith, long forgotten, comes back to me, and explains all that we do, and all we suffer.
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ContextHighlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
6  In such guise had Pearl adorned herself, when she heard her mother's voice, and came slowly back.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
7  With the same hard demeanour, she was led back to prison, and vanished from the public gaze within its iron-clamped portal.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
8  The next instant, back it all rushed again, with still a deeper throb of pain; for, in that brief interval, she had sinned anew.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
9  He marvelled, indeed, at the violence with which he had thrust back the kind old man, when merely proffering the advice which it was his duty to bestow, and which the minister himself had expressly sought.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
10  With nothing now to lose, in the sight of mankind, and with no hope, and seemingly no wish, of gaining anything, it could only be a genuine regard for virtue that had brought back the poor wanderer to its paths.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
11  Thus Hester Prynne, whose heart had lost its regular and healthy throb, wandered without a clue in the dark labyrinth of mind; now turned aside by an insurmountable precipice; now starting back from a deep chasm.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
12  They were awe-stricken likewise at themselves, because the crisis flung back to them their consciousness, and revealed to each heart its history and experience, as life never does, except at such breathless epochs.
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ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
13  Her sex, her youth, and the whole richness of her beauty, came back from what men call the irrevocable past, and clustered themselves with her maiden hope, and a happiness before unknown, within the magic circle of this hour.
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ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
14  There were a few rose-bushes, however, and a number of apple-trees, probably the descendants of those planted by the Reverend Mr. Blackstone, the first settler of the peninsula; that half mythological personage who rides through our early annals, seated on the back of a bull.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
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.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
16  Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud: an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound, and were bandying it to and fro.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
17  Reminiscences, the most trifling and immaterial, passages of infancy and school-days, sports, childish quarrels, and the little domestic traits of her maiden years, came swarming back upon her, intermingled with recollections of whatever was gravest in her subsequent life; one picture precisely as vivid as another; as if all were of similar importance, or all alike a play.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
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