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1  Her shadow had faded across the threshold.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
2  A mystic shadow of suspicion immediately attached itself to the spot.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
3  The objects that had made a shadow hitherto, embodied the brightness now.
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ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
4  Your pardon once again, good sir, if my speech give the shadow of offence.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
5  The shadow of the curtain fell on Hester Prynne, and partially concealed her.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
6  And he himself in so far as he shows himself in a false light, becomes a shadow, or, indeed, ceases to exist.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
7  So Pearl, who had enough of shadow in her own little life, chose to break off all acquaintance with this repining brook.
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ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
8  When her elf-child had departed, Hester Prynne made a step or two towards the track that led through the forest, but still remained under the deep shadow of the trees.
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ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
9  The motherly care of the good widow assigned to Mr. Dimmesdale a front apartment, with a sunny exposure, and heavy window-curtains, to create a noontide shadow when desirable.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
10  In spite of his premeditated carefulness, the floor would now and then creak; his garments would rustle; the shadow of his presence, in a forbidden proximity, would be thrown across his victim.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
11  The door of the jail being flung open from within there appeared, in the first place, like a black shadow emerging into sunshine, the grim and gristly presence of the town-beadle, with a sword by his side, and his staff of office in his hand.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
12  Walking in the shadow of a dream, as it were, and perhaps actually under the influence of a species of somnambulism, Mr. Dimmesdale reached the spot where, now so long since, Hester Prynne had lived through her first hours of public ignominy.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
13  It might be that an Antinomian, a Quaker, or other heterodox religionist, was to be scourged out of the town, or an idle or vagrant Indian, whom the white man's firewater had made riotous about the streets, was to be driven with stripes into the shadow of the forest.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
14  Beyond the shadow of a doubt, this venerable witch-lady had heard Mr. Dimmesdale's outcry, and interpreted it, with its multitudinous echoes and reverberations, as the clamour of the fiends and night-hags, with whom she was well known to make excursions in the forest.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
15  The young minister, on ceasing to speak had withdrawn a few steps from the group, and stood with his face partially concealed in the heavy folds of the window-curtain; while the shadow of his figure, which the sunlight cast upon the floor, was tremulous with the vehemence of his appeal.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
16  Throwing his eyes anxiously in the direction of the voice, he indistinctly beheld a form under the trees, clad in garments so sombre, and so little relieved from the gray twilight into which the clouded sky and the heavy foliage had darkened the noontide, that he knew not whether it were a woman or a shadow.
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ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
17  The mother's impassioned state had been the medium through which were transmitted to the unborn infant the rays of its moral life; and, however white and clear originally, they had taken the deep stains of crimson and gold, the fiery lustre, the black shadow, and the untempered light of the intervening substance.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
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