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1  The minister saw nothing further of her motions.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
2  It was like nothing so much as the phantasmagoric play of the northern lights.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
3  Verily, and in good faith," answered Roger Chillingworth, "I knew nothing of the matter.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
4  This he repressed as speedily as possible, and strove to look as if nothing of the kind had happened.
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ContextHighlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
5  In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
6  It could have betokened nothing short of the anticipated execution of some noted culprit, on whom the sentence of a legal tribunal had but confirmed the verdict of public sentiment.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
7  In truth, nothing short of a total change of dynasty and moral code, in that interior kingdom, was adequate to account for the impulses now communicated to the unfortunate and startled minister.
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ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
8  But the brook, in the course of its little lifetime among the forest trees, had gone through so solemn an experience that it could not help talking about it, and seemed to have nothing else to say.
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ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
9  With nothing now to lose, in the sight of mankind, and with no hope, and seemingly no wish, of gaining anything, it could only be a genuine regard for virtue that had brought back the poor wanderer to its paths.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
10  This vocal organ was in itself a rich endowment, insomuch that a listener, comprehending nothing of the language in which the preacher spoke, might still have been swayed to and fro by the mere tone and cadence.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
11  So she drew her mother away, skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically among the hillocks of the dead people, like a creature that had nothing in common with a bygone and buried generation, nor owned herself akin to it.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
12  The young clergyman, after a few hours of privacy, was sensible that the disorder of his nerves had hurried him into an unseemly outbreak of temper, which there had been nothing in the physician's words to excuse or palliate.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
13  On this eventful day, moreover, there was a certain singular inquietude and excitement in her mood, resembling nothing so much as the shimmer of a diamond, that sparkles and flashes with the varied throbbings of the breast on which it is displayed.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
14  Hester could not but ask herself whether there had not originally been a defect of truth, courage, and loyalty on her own part, in allowing the minister to be thrown into a position where so much evil was to be foreboded and nothing auspicious to be hoped.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
15  He now dug into the poor clergyman's heart, like a miner searching for gold; or, rather, like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man's bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
16  For her kindred, should the tidings ever reach them, and for the companions of her unspotted life, there remained nothing but the contagion of her dishonour; which would not fail to be distributed in strict accordance and proportion with the intimacy and sacredness of their previous relationship.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
17  It was due in part to all these causes, but still more to something else, that there seemed to be no longer anything in Hester's face for Love to dwell upon; nothing in Hester's form, though majestic and statue like, that Passion would ever dream of clasping in its embrace; nothing in Hester's bosom to make it ever again the pillow of Affection.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
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