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1 Skilful men, of the medical and chirurgical profession, were of rare occurrence in the colony.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In IX. THE LEECH
2 There was some shadow of an attempt of this kind in the mode of celebrating the day on which the political year of the colony commenced.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
3 The traits of character here indicated were well represented in the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION
4 The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognised it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In I. THE PRISON DOOR
5 The period was hardly, if at all, earlier than that of our story, when a dispute concerning the right of property in a pig not only caused a fierce and bitter contest in the legislative body of the colony, but resulted in an important modification of the framework itself of the legislature.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
6 It was already thronged with the craftsmen and other plebeian inhabitants of the town, in considerable numbers, among whom, likewise, were many rough figures, whose attire of deer-skins marked them as belonging to some of the forest settlements, which surrounded the little metropolis of the colony.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
7 It was so artistically done, and with so much fertility and gorgeous luxuriance of fancy, that it had all the effect of a last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore, and which was of a splendour in accordance with the taste of the age, but greatly beyond what was allowed by the sumptuary regulations of the colony.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE