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1  Roger Chillingworth had by this time approached the window and smiled grimly down.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
2  Many a time afterwards had Hester been tortured, though less vividly, by the same illusion.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
3  Hester repelled the offered medicine, at the same time gazing with strongly marked apprehension into his face.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
4  At his arrival in the market-place, and some time before she saw him, the stranger had bent his eyes on Hester Prynne.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
5  Much of the time, which she might readily have applied to the better efforts of her art, she employed in making coarse garments for the poor.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
6  Open a passage; and I promise ye, Mistress Prynne shall be set where man, woman, and child may have a fair sight of her brave apparel from this time till an hour past meridian.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
7  Little Pearl, who was as greatly pleased with the gleaming armour as she had been with the glittering frontispiece of the house, spent some time looking into the polished mirror of the breastplate.
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ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
8  As not only the disease interested the physician, but he was strongly moved to look into the character and qualities of the patient, these two men, so different in age, came gradually to spend much time together.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
9  Another and far more important reason than the delivery of a pair of embroidered gloves, impelled Hester, at this time, to seek an interview with a personage of so much power and activity in the affairs of the settlement.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
10  Yonder woman, Sir, you must know, was the wife of a certain learned man, English by birth, but who had long ago dwelt in Amsterdam, whence some good time agone he was minded to cross over and cast in his lot with us of the Massachusetts.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
11  Mr. Dimmesdale was a true priest, a true religionist, with the reverential sentiment largely developed, and an order of mind that impelled itself powerfully along the track of a creed, and wore its passage continually deeper with the lapse of time.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
12  After a time, at a hint from Roger Chillingworth, the friends of Mr. Dimmesdale effected an arrangement by which the two were lodged in the same house; so that every ebb and flow of the minister's life-tide might pass under the eye of his anxious and attached physician.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
13  With these remorseful feelings, he lost no time in making the amplest apologies, and besought his friend still to continue the care which, if not successful in restoring him to health, had, in all probability, been the means of prolonging his feeble existence to that hour.
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ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
14  An Indian in his native garb was standing there; but the red men were not so infrequent visitors of the English settlements that one of them would have attracted any notice from Hester Prynne at such a time; much less would he have excluded all other objects and ideas from her mind.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
15  In Hester Prynne's instance, however, as not unfrequently in other cases, her sentence bore that she should stand a certain time upon the platform, but without undergoing that gripe about the neck and confinement of the head, the proneness to which was the most devilish characteristic of this ugly engine.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
16  Hither, likewise, would come the elders and deacons of Mr. Dimmesdale's church, and the young virgins who so idolized their minister, and had made a shrine for him in their white bosoms, which now, by-the-bye, in their hurry and confusion, they would scantly have given themselves time to cover with their kerchiefs.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
17  In fact, this scaffold constituted a portion of a penal machine, which now, for two or three generations past, has been merely historical and traditionary among us, but was held, in the old time, to be as effectual an agent, in the promotion of good citizenship, as ever was the guillotine among the terrorists of France.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
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