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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 LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
2 So the child flew away like a bird, and, making bare her small white feet went pattering along the moist margin of the sea.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
3 The eloquent voice, on which the souls of the listening audience had been borne aloft as on the swelling waves of the sea, at length came to a pause.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
4 But the sea in those old times heaved, swelled, and foamed very much at its own will, or subject only to the tempestuous wind, with hardly any attempts at regulation by human law.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
5 Hopefully, but a moment ago, as Hester had spoken of drowning it in the deep sea, there was a sense of inevitable doom upon her as she thus received back this deadly symbol from the hand of fate.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
6 I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk to the southward; and am now brought hither by this Indian to be redeemed out of my captivity.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In III. THE RECOGNITION
7 Now, good Sir, our Massachusetts magistracy, bethinking themselves that this woman is youthful and fair, and doubtless was strongly tempted to her fall, and that, moreover, as is most likely, her husband may be at the bottom of the sea, they have not been bold to put in force the extremity of our righteous law against her.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In III. THE RECOGNITION
8 There were human beings enough, and enough of highly wrought and symphonious feeling to produce that more impressive sound than the organ tones of the blast, or the thunder, or the roar of the sea; even that mighty swell of many voices, blended into one great voice by the universal impulse which makes likewise one vast heart out of the many.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER