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1  But they were uttered only within his imagination.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
2  One glance of recognition she had imagined must needs pass between them.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
3  Neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life; no, nor against his fame, if as I judge, he be a man of fair repute.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
4  In Arthur Dimmesdale, thought and imagination were so active, and sensibility so intense, that the bodily infirmity would be likely to have its groundwork there.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
5  In the cottage there were articles of comfort and luxury such as Hester never cared to use, but which only wealth could have purchased and affection have imagined for her.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
6  Pearl immediately twined it around her neck and waist with such happy skill, that, once seen there, it became a part of her, and it was difficult to imagine her without it.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
7  Her imagination was somewhat affected, and, had she been of a softer moral and intellectual fibre would have been still more so, by the strange and solitary anguish of her life.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
8  And, even with this terror in his heart, he could hardly avoid laughing, to imagine how the sanctified old patriarchal deacon would have been petrified by his minister's impiety.
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ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
9  Oftener, however, its credibility rested on the faith of some lonely eye-witness, who beheld the wonder through the coloured, magnifying, and distorted medium of his imagination, and shaped it more distinctly in his after-thought.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
10  Her mother, in contriving the child's garb, had allowed the gorgeous tendencies of her imagination their full play, arraying her in a crimson velvet tunic of a peculiar cut, abundantly embroidered in fantasies and flourishes of gold thread.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
11  The virgins of his church grew pale around him, victims of a passion so imbued with religious sentiment, that they imagined it to be all religion, and brought it openly, in their white bosoms, as their most acceptable sacrifice before the altar.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
12  So forcibly did he dwell upon this symbol, for the hour or more during which his periods were rolling over the people's heads, that it assumed new terrors in their imagination, and seemed to derive its scarlet hue from the flames of the infernal pit.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
13  Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared, there was yet, we fear, a quiet depth of malice, hitherto latent, but active now, in this unfortunate old man, which led him to imagine a more intimate revenge than any mortal had ever wreaked upon an enemy.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
14  Not but the meteor may have shown itself at that point, burning duskily through a veil of cloud, but with no such shape as his guilty imagination gave it, or, at least, with so little definiteness, that another's guilt might have seen another symbol in it.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
15  He had begun an investigation, as he imagined, with the severe and equal integrity of a judge, desirous only of truth, even as if the question involved no more than the air-drawn lines and figures of a geometrical problem, instead of human passions, and wrongs inflicted on himself.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
16  Earlier in life, Hester had vainly imagined that she herself might be the destined prophetess, but had long since recognised the impossibility that any mission of divine and mysterious truth should be confided to a woman stained with sin, bowed down with shame, or even burdened with a life-long sorrow.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
17  He was not ill-fitted to be the head and representative of a community which owed its origin and progress, and its present state of development, not to the impulses of youth, but to the stern and tempered energies of manhood and the sombre sagacity of age; accomplishing so much, precisely because it imagined and hoped so little.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
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