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1  "I see the child," observed the minister.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
2  "Yet some men bury their secrets thus," observed the calm physician.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
3  It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
4  "So, reverend sir, you have made a visit into the forest," observed the witch-lady, nodding her high head-dress at him.
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ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
5  Slowly as the minister walked, he had almost gone by before Hester Prynne could gather voice enough to attract his observation.
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ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
6  Thus conversing, they entered sufficiently deep into the wood to secure themselves from the observation of any casual passenger along the forest track.
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ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
7  It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors, which the night-watcher may so often observe burning out to waste, in the vacant regions of the atmosphere.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
8  I have a strange fancy," observed the sensitive minister, "that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and that thou canst never meet thy Pearl again.
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ContextHighlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
9  It was the place whence proclamations were wont to be made, amidst an assemblage of the magistracy, with all the ceremonial that attended such public observances in those days.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
10  The whole gang of sailors, likewise, observing the press of spectators, and learning the purport of the scarlet letter, came and thrust their sunburnt and desperado-looking faces into the ring.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
11  My old studies in alchemy," observed he, "and my sojourn, for above a year past, among a people well versed in the kindly properties of simples, have made a better physician of me than many that claim the medical degree.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
12  It was the observation of those who beheld him now, that never, since Mr. Dimmesdale first set his foot on the New England shore, had he exhibited such energy as was seen in the gait and air with which he kept his pace in the procession.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
13  He was now known to be a man of skill; it was observed that he gathered herbs and the blossoms of wild-flowers, and dug up roots and plucked off twigs from the forest-trees like one acquainted with hidden virtues in what was valueless to common eyes.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
14  From this intense consciousness of being the object of severe and universal observation, the wearer of the scarlet letter was at length relieved, by discerning, on the outskirts of the crowd, a figure which irresistibly took possession of her thoughts.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
15  It denoted the advance of the procession of magistrates and citizens on its way towards the meeting-house: where, in compliance with a custom thus early established, and ever since observed, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale was to deliver an Election Sermon.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
16  Nor would it have been impracticable, in the observance of majestic ceremonies, to combine mirthful recreation with solemnity, and give, as it were, a grotesque and brilliant embroidery to the great robe of state, which a nation, at such festivals, puts on.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
17  His form grew emaciated; his voice, though still rich and sweet, had a certain melancholy prophecy of decay in it; he was often observed, on any slight alarm or other sudden accident, to put his hand over his heart with first a flush and then a paleness, indicative of pain.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
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