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1  It stood on the shore, looking across a basin of the sea at the forest-covered hills, towards the west.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
2  "Never," replied Hester Prynne, looking, not at Mr. Wilson, but into the deep and troubled eyes of the younger clergyman.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
3  "It is as well to have made this step," said Roger Chillingworth to himself, looking after the minister, with a grave smile.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
4  "Oh, a story about the Black Man," answered Pearl, taking hold of her mother's gown, and looking up, half earnestly, half mischievously, into her face.
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ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
5  The venerable Father Wilson continued to step slowly onward, looking carefully at the muddy pathway before his feet, and never once turning his head towards the guilty platform.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
6  The child probably overheard their voices, for, looking up to the window with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Rev.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
7  Hester Prynne," said he, leaning over the balcony and looking down steadfastly into her eyes, "thou hearest what this good man says, and seest the accountability under which I labour.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
8  All this while Hester had been looking steadily at the old man, and was shocked, as well as wonder-smitten, to discern what a change had been wrought upon him within the past seven years.
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ContextHighlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
9  Pearl, looking at this bright wonder of a house began to caper and dance, and imperatively required that the whole breadth of sunshine should be stripped off its front, and given her to play with.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
10  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
11  Not the less, however, though with a tremulous enjoyment, did he feel the occasional relief of looking at the universe through the medium of another kind of intellect than those with which he habitually held converse.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
12  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
13  But whether from pride or resignation, or a feeling that her penance might best be wrought out by this unutterable pain, she resisted the impulse, and sat erect, pale as death, looking sadly into little Pearl's wild eyes.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
14  But the child, unaccustomed to the touch or familiarity of any but her mother, escaped through the open window, and stood on the upper step, looking like a wild tropical bird of rich plumage, ready to take flight into the upper air.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
15  Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him and show the wavering track of his footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure.
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ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
16  Even had there been a disposition to turn the matter into ridicule, it must have been repressed and overpowered by the solemn presence of men no less dignified than the governor, and several of his counsellors, a judge, a general, and the ministers of the town, all of whom sat or stood in a balcony of the meeting-house, looking down upon the platform.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
17  Once this freakish, elvish cast came into the child's eyes while Hester was looking at her own image in them, as mothers are fond of doing; and suddenly for women in solitude, and with troubled hearts, are pestered with unaccountable delusions she fancied that she beheld, not her own miniature portrait, but another face in the small black mirror of Pearl's eye.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
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