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1  It showed Pearl in an unwonted aspect.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
2  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
3  Truly, as I sought to convince him, the shame lay in the commission of the sin, and not in the showing of it forth.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
4  Her face, so long familiar to the townspeople, showed the marble quietude which they were accustomed to behold there.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
5  Even in outward demeanour they showed a stamp of majesty that made the warrior's haughty stride look vulgar, if not absurd.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
6  Lonely as was Hester's situation, and without a friend on earth who dared to show himself, she, however, incurred no risk of want.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
7  Soon the head of the procession showed itself, with a slow and stately march, turning a corner, and making its way across the market-place.
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ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
8  And his encounter with old Mistress Hibbins, if it were a real incident, did but show its sympathy and fellowship with wicked mortals, and the world of perverted spirits.
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ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
9  It showed the familiar scene of the street with the distinctness of mid-day, but also with the awfulness that is always imparted to familiar objects by an unaccustomed light.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
10  But, in spite of this outward show, the latter was almost convinced of the old man's knowledge, or, at least, his confident suspicion, with respect to his own interview with Hester Prynne.
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ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
11  This bright panoply was not meant for mere idle show, but had been worn by the Governor on many a solemn muster and training field, and had glittered, moreover, at the head of a regiment in the Pequod war.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
12  But, whether influenced by the jealousy that seems instinctive with every petted child towards a dangerous rival, or from whatever caprice of her freakish nature, Pearl would show no favour to the clergyman.
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ContextHighlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
13  Interpreting Hester Prynne's deportment as an appeal of this nature, society was inclined to show its former victim a more benign countenance than she cared to be favoured with, or, perchance, than she deserved.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
14  And thus, while standing on the scaffold, in this vain show of expiation, Mr. Dimmesdale was overcome with a great horror of mind, as if the universe were gazing at a scarlet token on his naked breast, right over his heart.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
15  Hester gazed after him a little while, looking with a half fantastic curiosity to see whether the tender grass of early spring would not be blighted beneath him and show the wavering track of his footsteps, sere and brown, across its cheerful verdure.
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ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
16  The angel and apostle of the coming revelation must be a woman, indeed, but lofty, pure, and beautiful, and wise; moreover, not through dusky grief, but the ethereal medium of joy; and showing how sacred love should make us happy, by the truest test of a life successful to such an end.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIV. CONCLUSION
17  The old clergyman, nurtured at the rich bosom of the English Church, had a long established and legitimate taste for all good and comfortable things, and however stern he might show himself in the pulpit, or in his public reproof of such transgressions as that of Hester Prynne, still, the genial benevolence of his private life had won him warmer affection than was accorded to any of his professional contemporaries.
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ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
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