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1  Detecting his emotion, Pearl clapped her little hands in the most extravagant ecstacy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
2  Especially she is generally intolerant of emotion, when she does not fully comprehend the why and wherefore.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
3  These emotions, in fact, and its bitterest scorn besides, seemed to be the sole portion that she retained in the universal heart.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
4  Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
5  Yet, uttering his long-restrained emotions so vehemently as he did, his words here offered her the very point of circumstances in which to interpose what she came to say.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
6  His intellectual gifts, his moral perceptions, his power of experiencing and communicating emotion, were kept in a state of preternatural activity by the prick and anguish of his daily life.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
7  His face darkened with some powerful emotion, which, nevertheless, he so instantaneously controlled by an effort of his will, that, save at a single moment, its expression might have passed for calmness.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
8  The emotion of that brief space, while she stood gazing after the crooked figure of old Roger Chillingworth, threw a dark light on Hester's state of mind, revealing much that she might not otherwise have acknowledged to herself.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
9  Then flinging the already written pages of the Election Sermon into the fire, he forthwith began another, which he wrote with such an impulsive flow of thought and emotion, that he fancied himself inspired; and only wondered that Heaven should see fit to transmit the grand and solemn music of its oracles through so foul an organ pipe as he.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
10  Children have always a sympathy in the agitations of those connected with them: always, especially, a sense of any trouble or impending revolution, of whatever kind, in domestic circumstances; and therefore Pearl, who was the gem on her mother's unquiet bosom, betrayed, by the very dance of her spirits, the emotions which none could detect in the marble passiveness of Hester's brow.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY