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1  Hester's first motion had been to cover her bosom with her clasped hands.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
2  Pearl felt the sentiment, and requited it with the bitterest hatred that can be supposed to rankle in a childish bosom.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
3  It was none the less a fact, however, that in the eyes of the very men who spoke thus, the scarlet letter had the effect of the cross on a nun's bosom.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
4  Pearl," said he, with great solemnity, "thou must take heed to instruction, that so, in due season, thou mayest wear in thy bosom the pearl of great price.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
5  And we must needs say it seared Hester's bosom so deeply, that perhaps there was more truth in the rumour than our modern incredulity may be inclined to admit.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
6  The unhappy culprit sustained herself as best a woman might, under the heavy weight of a thousand unrelenting eyes, all fastened upon her, and concentrated at her bosom.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
7  Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
8  The physician advanced directly in front of his patient, laid his hand upon his bosom, and thrust aside the vestment, that hitherto had always covered it even from the professional eye.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
9  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.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
10  Even the poor baby at Hester's bosom was affected by the same influence, for it directed its hitherto vacant gaze towards Mr. Dimmesdale, and held up its little arms with a half-pleased, half-plaintive murmur.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
11  Again, at the first instant of perceiving that thin visage, and the slight deformity of the figure, she pressed her infant to her bosom with so convulsive a force that the poor babe uttered another cry of pain.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
12  And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom; and little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the connecting link between those two.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
13  But it was a remarkable attribute of this garb, and indeed, of the child's whole appearance, that it irresistibly and inevitably reminded the beholder of the token which Hester Prynne was doomed to wear upon her bosom.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
14  "Nevertheless, I will enter," answered Hester Prynne; and the bond-servant, perhaps judging from the decision of her air, and the glittering symbol in her bosom, that she was a great lady in the land, offered no opposition.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
15  He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
16  In the afternoon of a certain summer's day, after Pearl grew big enough to run about, she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild flowers, and flinging them, one by one, at her mother's bosom; dancing up and down like a little elf whenever she hit the scarlet letter.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
17  The old clergyman, nurtured at the rich bosom of the English Church, had a long established and legitimate taste for all good and comfortable things, and however stern he might show himself in the pulpit, or in his public reproof of such transgressions as that of Hester Prynne, still, the genial benevolence of his private life had won him warmer affection than was accorded to any of his professional contemporaries.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
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