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1  Unscrupulous as it was, however, it could not bring them nearer than a circuit of several yards.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
2  But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
3  Hester Prynne, nevertheless, the loving mother of this one child, ran little risk of erring on the side of undue severity.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
4  She seized a live horse-shoe by the tail, and made prize of several five-fingers, and laid out a jelly-fish to melt in the warm sun.
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ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
5  His fame, though still on its upward slope, already overshadowed the soberer reputations of his fellow-clergymen, eminent as several of them were.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
6  Such is frequently the fate, and such the stern development, of the feminine character and person, when the woman has encountered, and lived through, an experience of peculiar severity.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
7  All such professors of the several branches of jocularity would have been sternly repressed, not only by the rigid discipline of law, but by the general sentiment which give law its vitality.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
8  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.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
9  The impression made by his aspect, so rigid and severe, and frost-bitten with more than autumnal age, was hardly in keeping with the appliances of worldly enjoyment wherewith he had evidently done his utmost to surround himself.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
10  It was a circumstance to be noted on the summer morning when our story begins its course, that the women, of whom there were several in the crowd, appeared to take a peculiar interest in whatever penal infliction might be expected to ensue.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
11  They were stern enough to look upon her death, had that been the sentence, without a murmur at its severity, but had none of the heartlessness of another social state, which would find only a theme for jest in an exhibition like the present.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
12  For several days, however, she vainly sought an opportunity of addressing him in some of the meditative walks which she knew him to be in the habit of taking along the shores of the Peninsula, or on the wooded hills of the neighbouring country.
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ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
13  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
14  All were characterised by the sternness and severity which old portraits so invariably put on, as if they were the ghosts, rather than the pictures, of departed worthies, and were gazing with harsh and intolerant criticism at the pursuits and enjoyments of living men.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
15  He had begun an investigation, as he imagined, with the severe and equal integrity of a judge, desirous only of truth, even as if the question involved no more than the air-drawn lines and figures of a geometrical problem, instead of human passions, and wrongs inflicted on himself.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
16  Such a spiritual seer might have conceived, that, after sustaining the gaze of the multitude through several miserable years as a necessity, a penance, and something which it was a stern religion to endure, she now, for one last time more, encountered it freely and voluntarily, in order to convert what had so long been agony into a kind of triumph.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
17  Even had there been a disposition to turn the matter into ridicule, it must have been repressed and overpowered by the solemn presence of men no less dignified than the governor, and several of his counsellors, a judge, a general, and the ministers of the town, all of whom sat or stood in a balcony of the meeting-house, looking down upon the platform.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
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