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1  "You speak, my friend, with a strange earnestness," said old.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
2  "Prithee, friend, leave me alone with my patient," said the practitioner.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
3  Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
4  "I thank you from my heart, most watchful friend," said the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale with a solemn smile.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
5  The physician knew then that in the minister's regard he was no longer a trusted friend, but his bitterest enemy.
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ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
6  "Of a truth, friend, that matter remaineth a riddle; and the Daniel who shall expound it is yet a-wanting," answered the townsman.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
7  Lonely as was Hester's situation, and without a friend on earth who dared to show himself, she, however, incurred no risk of want.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
8  She never created a friend, but seemed always to be sowing broadcast the dragon's teeth, whence sprung a harvest of armed enemies, against whom she rushed to battle.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
9  "Thank you, my good friend," said the minister, gravely, but startled at heart; for so confused was his remembrance, that he had almost brought himself to look at the events of the past night as visionary.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
10  You must needs be a stranger in this region, friend," answered the townsman, looking curiously at the questioner and his savage companion, "else you would surely have heard of Mistress Hester Prynne and her evil doings.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
11  A secret enemy had been continually by his side, under the semblance of a friend and helper, and had availed himself of the opportunities thus afforded for tampering with the delicate springs of Mr. Dimmesdale's nature.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
12  But Old Roger Chillingworth, too, had perceptions that were almost intuitive; and when the minister threw his startled eyes towards him, there the physician sat; his kind, watchful, sympathising, but never intrusive friend.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
13  It was understood that this learned man was the physician as well as friend of the young minister, whose health had severely suffered of late by his too unreserved self-sacrifice to the labours and duties of the pastoral relation.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
14  With these remorseful feelings, he lost no time in making the amplest apologies, and besought his friend still to continue the care which, if not successful in restoring him to health, had, in all probability, been the means of prolonging his feeble existence to that hour.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
15  Truly, friend; and methinks it must gladden your heart, after your troubles and sojourn in the wilderness," said the townsman, "to find yourself at length in a land where iniquity is searched out and punished in the sight of rulers and people, as here in our godly New England.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
16  She made a very grand appearance, having on a high head-dress, a rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch, of which Anne Turner, her especial friend, had taught her the secret, before this last good lady had been hanged for Sir Thomas Overbury's murder.
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ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
17  But now the idea came strongly into Hester's mind, that Pearl, with her remarkable precocity and acuteness, might already have approached the age when she could have been made a friend, and intrusted with as much of her mother's sorrows as could be imparted, without irreverence either to the parent or the child.
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ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
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