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1  It was almost intolerable to be borne.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
2  Pearl was a born outcast of the infantile world.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
3  The persons now in the market-place of Boston had not been born to an inheritance of Puritanic gloom.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
4  For, Hester, his spirit lacked the strength that could have borne up, as thine has, beneath a burden like thy scarlet letter.
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ContextHighlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
5  The eloquent voice, on which the souls of the listening audience had been borne aloft as on the swelling waves of the sea, at length came to a pause.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
6  It now writhed in convulsions of pain, and was a forcible type, in its little frame, of the moral agony which Hester Prynne had borne throughout the day.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
7  His inward trouble drove him to practices more in accordance with the old, corrupted faith of Rome than with the better light of the church in which he had been born and bred.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
8  Tomorrow would bring its own trial with it; so would the next day, and so would the next: each its own trial, and yet the very same that was now so unutterably grievous to be borne.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
9  There goes a woman," resumed Roger Chillingworth, after a pause, "who, be her demerits what they may, hath none of that mystery of hidden sinfulness which you deem so grievous to be borne.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
10  Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
11  Individuals in private life, meanwhile, had quite forgiven Hester Prynne for her frailty; nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
12  Little Pearl at first clapped her hands, but then lost for an instant the restless agitation that had kept her in a continual effervescence throughout the morning; she gazed silently, and seemed to be borne upward like a floating sea-bird on the long heaves and swells of sound.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
13  She had borne that morning all that nature could endure; and as her temperament was not of the order that escapes from too intense suffering by a swoon, her spirit could only shelter itself beneath a stony crust of insensibility, while the faculties of animal life remained entire.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
14  Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In I. THE PRISON DOOR