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The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
2 This expression was invisible in Mr. Dimmesdale's presence, but grew strongly evident as the physician crossed the threshold.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
3 All people, in a word, would come stumbling over their thresholds, and turning up their amazed and horror-stricken visages around the scaffold.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
4 So long estranged by fate and circumstances, they needed something slight and casual to run before and throw open the doors of intercourse, so that their real thoughts might be led across the threshold.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
5 Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In I. THE PRISON DOOR
6 Perhaps there was a more real torture in her first unattended footsteps from the threshold of the prison than even in the procession and spectacle that have been described, where she was made the common infamy, at which all mankind was summoned to point its finger.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
7 Stretching forth the official staff in his left hand, he laid his right upon the shoulder of a young woman, whom he thus drew forward, until, on the threshold of the prison-door, she repelled him, by an action marked with natural dignity and force of character, and stepped into the open air as if by her own free will.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
8 She saw the children of the settlement on the grassy margin of the street, or at the domestic thresholds, disporting themselves in such grim fashions as the Puritanic nurture would permit; playing at going to church, perchance, or at scourging Quakers; or taking scalps in a sham fight with the Indians, or scaring one another with freaks of imitative witchcraft.
The Scarlet LetterBy Nathaniel Hawthorne ContextHighlight In VI. PEARL