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1  The occasion was not long to seek.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
2  I shall seek this man, as I have sought truth in books: as I have sought gold in alchemy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
3  Therefore, as a man who has not thought and philosophised in vain, I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
4  Still came the battery of flowers, almost invariably hitting the mark, and covering the mother's breast with hurts for which she could find no balm in this world, nor knew how to seek it in another.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
5  The thought occurred to Hester, that the child might really be seeking to approach her with childlike confidence, and doing what she could, and as intelligently as she knew how, to establish a meeting-point of sympathy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
6  Another and far more important reason than the delivery of a pair of embroidered gloves, impelled Hester, at this time, to seek an interview with a personage of so much power and activity in the affairs of the settlement.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
7  Hester felt herself, in some indistinct and tantalizing manner, estranged from Pearl, as if the child, in her lonely ramble through the forest, had strayed out of the sphere in which she and her mother dwelt together, and was now vainly seeking to return to it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
8  That look of naughty merriment was likewise reflected in the mirror, with so much breadth and intensity of effect, that it made Hester Prynne feel as if it could not be the image of her own child, but of an imp who was seeking to mould itself into Pearl's shape.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL