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1  There is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
2  But of late, since the night of his vigil, all her sympathies towards him had been both softened and invigorated.
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ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
3  Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
4  With these she decorated her hair and her young waist, and became a nymph child, or an infant dryad, or whatever else was in closest sympathy with the antique wood.
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ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
5  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
6  He took himself to task for his bad sympathies in reference to Roger Chillingworth, disregarded the lesson that he should have drawn from them, and did his best to root them out.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
7  The feeling that it so evidently manifested, rather than the direct purport of the words, caused it to vibrate within all hearts, and brought the listeners into one accord of sympathy.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
8  She never battled with the public, but submitted uncomplainingly to its worst usage; she made no claim upon it in requital for what she suffered; she did not weigh upon its sympathies.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
9  Pearl looked as beautiful as the day, but was in one of those moods of perverse merriment which, whenever they occurred, seemed to remove her entirely out of the sphere of sympathy or human contact.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
10  She seemed conscious, indeed, that whatever sympathy she might expect lay in the larger and warmer heart of the multitude; for, as she lifted her eyes towards the balcony, the unhappy woman grew pale, and trembled.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
11  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.
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ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
12  It was strange, the way in which Pearl stood, looking so steadfastly at them through the dim medium of the forest gloom, herself, meanwhile, all glorified with a ray of sunshine, that was attracted thitherward as by a certain sympathy.
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ContextHighlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
13  She accompanied this wild outbreak with piercing shrieks, which the woods reverberated on all sides, so that, alone as she was in her childish and unreasonable wrath, it seemed as if a hidden multitude were lending her their sympathy and encouragement.
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ContextHighlight   In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE
14  It was like a mask; or, rather like the frozen calmness of a dead woman's features; owing this dreary resemblance to the fact that Hester was actually dead, in respect to any claim of sympathy, and had departed out of the world with which she still seemed to mingle.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
15  The great scene of grief, in which the wild infant bore a part had developed all her sympathies; and as her tears fell upon her father's cheek, they were the pledge that she would grow up amid human joy and sorrow, nor forever do battle with the world, but be a woman in it.
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ContextHighlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
16  She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt; no more smile with the household joy, nor mourn with the kindred sorrow; or, should it succeed in manifesting its forbidden sympathy, awakening only terror and horrible repugnance.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
17  Children have always a sympathy in the agitations of those connected with them: always, especially, a sense of any trouble or impending revolution, of whatever kind, in domestic circumstances; and therefore Pearl, who was the gem on her mother's unquiet bosom, betrayed, by the very dance of her spirits, the emotions which none could detect in the marble passiveness of Hester's brow.
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ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY
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