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1 The traits of character here indicated were well represented in the square cast of countenance and large physical development of the new colonial magistrates.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION
2 On the wall hung a row of portraits, representing the forefathers of the Bellingham lineage, some with armour on their breasts, and others with stately ruffs and robes of peace.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
3 But, in truth, Pearl was the one as well as the other; and only in consequence of that identity had Hester contrived so perfectly to represent the scarlet letter in her appearance.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
4 The women who were now standing about the prison-door stood within less than half a century of the period when the man-like Elizabeth had been the not altogether unsuitable representative of the sex.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
5 This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
6 Hester looked by way of humouring the child; and she saw that, owing to the peculiar effect of this convex mirror, the scarlet letter was represented in exaggerated and gigantic proportions, so as to be greatly the most prominent feature of her appearance.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
7 The walls were hung round with tapestry, said to be from the Gobelin looms, and, at all events, representing the Scriptural story of David and Bathsheba, and Nathan the Prophet, in colours still unfaded, but which made the fair woman of the scene almost as grimly picturesque as the woe-denouncing seer.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In IX. THE LEECH
8 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.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In III. THE RECOGNITION