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1  His gray beard almost touched the ground as he crept onward.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
2  He may nod at thee, if he will; for thou art clad in gray, and wearest the scarlet letter.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
3  But we perhaps exaggerate the gray or sable tinge, which undoubtedly characterized the mood and manners of the age.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
4  On this public holiday, as on all other occasions for seven years past, Hester was clad in a garment of coarse gray cloth.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
5  One little gray bird, with a white breast, Pearl was almost sure had been hit by a pebble, and fluttered away with a broken wing.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
6  Near this latter spot, one afternoon some children were at play, when they beheld a tall woman in a gray robe approach the cottage-door.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
7  The picture of human life in the market-place, though its general tint was the sad gray, brown, or black of the English emigrants, was yet enlivened by some diversity of hue.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
8  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
9  As if there were a withering spell in the sad letter, her beauty, the warmth and richness of her womanhood, departed like fading sunshine, and a gray shadow seemed to fall across her.
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ContextHighlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
10  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
11  Letting the eyes follow along the course of the stream, they could catch the reflected light from its water, at some short distance within the forest, but soon lost all traces of it amid the bewilderment of tree-trunks and underbrush, and here and there a huge rock covered over with gray lichens.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
12  Throwing his eyes anxiously in the direction of the voice, he indistinctly beheld a form under the trees, clad in garments so sombre, and so little relieved from the gray twilight into which the clouded sky and the heavy foliage had darkened the noontide, that he knew not whether it were a woman or a shadow.
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ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
13  But there was Hester, clad in her gray robe, still standing beside the tree-trunk, which some blast had overthrown a long antiquity ago, and which time had ever since been covering with moss, so that these two fated ones, with earth's heaviest burden on them, might there sit down together, and find a single hour's rest and solace.
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ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
14  It would have been impossible to guess that this bright and sunny apparition owed its existence to the shape of gloomy gray; or that a fancy, at once so gorgeous and so delicate as must have been requisite to contrive the child's apparel, was the same that had achieved a task perhaps more difficult, in imparting so distinct a peculiarity to Hester's simple robe.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY