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1  A crimson flush was glowing on her cheek, that had been long so pale.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
2  The trying nature of his position drove the blood from his cheek, and made his lips tremulous.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
3  In a mood of tenderness that was not usual with her, she drew down her mother's head, and kissed her brow and both her cheeks.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
4  The glow, which they had just before beheld burning on his cheek, was extinguished, like a flame that sinks down hopelessly among the late decaying embers.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
5  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
6  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
7  Hester turned again towards Pearl with a crimson blush upon her cheek, a conscious glance aside clergyman, and then a heavy sigh, while, even before she had time to speak, the blush yielded to a deadly pallor.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
8  The bright morning sun, therefore, shone on broad shoulders and well-developed busts, and on round and ruddy cheeks, that had ripened in the far-off island, and had hardly yet grown paler or thinner in the atmosphere of New England.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
9  So much strength of colouring, which must have given a wan and pallid aspect to cheeks of a fainter bloom, was admirably adapted to Pearl's beauty, and made her the very brightest little jet of flame that ever danced upon the earth.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
10  The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor forever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
11  By those best acquainted with his habits, the paleness of the young minister's cheek was accounted for by his too earnest devotion to study, his scrupulous fulfilment of parochial duty, and more than all, to the fasts and vigils of which he made a frequent practice, in order to keep the grossness of this earthly state from clogging and obscuring his spiritual lamp.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH