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1  It had even thrown its gleam, in the sufferer's bard extremity, across the verge of time.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
2  But before Mr. Dimmesdale had done speaking, a light gleamed far and wide over all the muffled sky.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
3  Detecting the gleam of Governor Bellingham's lamp, the old lady quickly extinguished her own, and vanished.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
4  It was whispered by those who peered after her that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
5  From beneath their broad-brimmed hats of palm-leaf, gleamed eyes which, even in good-nature and merriment, had a kind of animal ferocity.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
6  The course of the little brook might be traced by its merry gleam afar into the wood's heart of mystery, which had become a mystery of joy.
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ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
7  Overhead was a gray expanse of cloud, slightly stirred, however, by a breeze; so that a gleam of flickering sunshine might now and then be seen at its solitary play along the path.
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ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
8  Then, however, there was the freshness of the passing year on its exterior, and the cheerfulness, gleaming forth from the sunny windows, of a human habitation, into which death had never entered.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
9  Little Pearl, who was as greatly pleased with the gleaming armour as she had been with the glittering frontispiece of the house, spent some time looking into the polished mirror of the breastplate.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
10  And Pearl, stepping in mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom; while, out of a still lower depth, came the gleam of a kind of fragmentary smile, floating to and fro in the agitated water.
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ContextHighlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
11  Two or three times, as her mother and she went homeward, and as often at supper-time, and while Hester was putting her to bed, and once after she seemed to be fairly asleep, Pearl looked up, with mischief gleaming in her black eyes.
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ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
12  All at once, as with a sudden smile of heaven, forth burst the sunshine, pouring a very flood into the obscure forest, gladdening each green leaf, transmuting the yellow fallen ones to gold, and gleaming adown the gray trunks of the solemn trees.
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ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
13  It threw a gleam of recognition, on here a post, and there a garden fence, and here a latticed window-pane, and there a pump, with its full trough of water, and here again an arched door of oak, with an iron knocker, and a rough log for the door-step.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
14  She had dark and abundant hair, so glossy that it threw off the sunshine with a gleam; and a face which, besides being beautiful from regularity of feature and richness of complexion, had the impressiveness belonging to a marked brow and deep black eyes.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
15  Sometimes a light glimmered out of the physician's eyes, burning blue and ominous, like the reflection of a furnace, or, let us say, like one of those gleams of ghastly fire that darted from Bunyan's awful doorway in the hillside, and quivered on the pilgrim's face.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
16  The Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale noted all these minute particulars, even while firmly convinced that the doom of his existence was stealing onward, in the footsteps which he now heard; and that the gleam of the lantern would fall upon him in a few moments more, and reveal his long-hidden secret.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
17  As she attempted to do so, the sunshine vanished; or, to judge from the bright expression that was dancing on Pearl's features, her mother could have fancied that the child had absorbed it into herself, and would give it forth again, with a gleam about her path, as they should plunge into some gloomier shade.
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ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
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