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1  Goodwives," said a hard-featured dame of fifty, "I'll tell ye a piece of my mind.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
2  His hearers could not rest until they had told one another of what each knew better than he could tell or hear.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXIII. THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER
3  If thou hadst a sorrow of thine own, the brook might tell thee of it," answered her mother, "even as it is telling me of mine.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
4  If thou hadst a sorrow of thine own, the brook might tell thee of it," answered her mother, "even as it is telling me of mine.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVI. A FOREST WALK
5  Then tell her," rejoined he, "that I spake again with the black-a-visaged, hump shouldered old doctor, and he engages to bring his friend, the gentleman she wots of, aboard with him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXII. THE PROCESSION
6  The boughs were tossing heavily above their heads; while one solemn old tree groaned dolefully to another, as if telling the sad story of the pair that sat beneath, or constrained to forbode evil to come.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
7  His first entry on the scene, few people could tell whence, dropping down as it were out of the sky or starting from the nether earth, had an aspect of mystery, which was easily heightened to the miraculous.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH