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1  The sensitive clergyman shrank, with nervous dread, from the light missile.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
2  She fled for refuge, as it were, to the public exposure, and dreaded the moment when its protection should be withdrawn from her.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
3  The eyes of the wrinkled scholar glowed so intensely upon her, that Hester Prynne clasped her hand over her heart, dreading lest he should read the secret there at once.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
4  Day after day she looked fearfully into the child's expanding nature, ever dreading to detect some dark and wild peculiarity that should correspond with the guiltiness to which she owed her being.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
5  She grew to have a dread of children; for they had imbibed from their parents a vague idea of something horrible in this dreary woman gliding silently through the town, with never any companion but one only child.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
6  From first to last, in short, Hester Prynne had always this dreadful agony in feeling a human eye upon the token; the spot never grew callous; it seemed, on the contrary, to grow more sensitive with daily torture.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
7  So strangely did they meet in the dim wood that it was like the first encounter in the world beyond the grave of two spirits who had been intimately connected in their former life, but now stood coldly shuddering in mutual dread, as not yet familiar with their state, nor wonted to the companionship of disembodied beings.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER