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The Scarlet Letter
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  • I was driving, and Daisy was talking about how her most recent fic had sort of gone viral in the Star Wars fan-fiction world and how she had tons of kudos on it and how she'd had to stay up all night to finish this paper on The Scarlet Letter and how she could maybe finally get some sleep now that she was "retiring" from Chuck E. Cheese's, and I felt fine.†   (source)
  • We are reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones.†   (source)
  • She pulled them out and started shelving, starting with Adultery and The Scarlet Letter.†   (source)
  • The sexiest we ever got was The Scarlet Letter.†   (source)
  • He is surprised to find a clergyman reading Hawthorne: the man has been accused of sensualism, and — especially after The Scarlet Letter— of a laxity in morals.†   (source)
  • The Scarlet Letter he read in six sittings.†   (source)
  • "So, that's The Scarlet Letter," she said, closing her book.†   (source)
  • Or, if he preferred the nineteenth century, this same ox-cart driver could select Moby Dick by Herman Melville or The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne.†   (source)
  • "Something tells me this isn't about The Scarlet Letter," he said, and even in the dark I knew he was grinning.†   (source)
  • Wesley bent over at the waist to look at the bookshelf, and I looked away from his Diesels as he pulled his own copy of The Scarlet Letter off the shelf and moved to sit on his bed.†   (source)
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  • One day my teacher found me in a corner of the library poring over the pages of "The Scarlet Letter."†   (source)
  • Then she told me that she had a beautiful story about a little boy which she was sure I should like better than "The Scarlet Letter."†   (source)
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  • THE SCARLET LETTER.   (source)
    the scarlet letter = Nathaniel Hawthorne's famous novel of hidden guilt and societal condemnation (1850)
  • He again extended his hand to the woman of the scarlet letter.   (source)
  • So said Hester Prynne, and glanced her sad eyes downward at the scarlet letter.   (source)
  • He may nod at thee, if he will; for thou art clad in gray, and wearest the scarlet letter.   (source)
  • Lo, the scarlet letter which Hester wears!   (source)
  • That, and thy repentance, may avail to take the scarlet letter off thy breast.   (source)
  • The scarlet letter had not done its office.   (source)
  • And as for the scarlet letter, I wear it for the sake of its gold thread.   (source)
  • And there was the scarlet letter on her breast!   (source)
  • "I have left thee to the scarlet letter," replied Roger Chillingworth.   (source)
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  • The woman of the scarlet letter in the marketplace!   (source)
  • —the scarlet letter on Hester's bosom!   (source)
  • Here seen only by his eyes, the scarlet letter need not burn into the bosom of the fallen woman!   (source)
  • It was the scarlet letter in another form: the scarlet letter endowed with life!   (source)
  • The story of the scarlet letter grew into a legend.   (source)
  • He made a step nigher, and discovered the scarlet letter.   (source)
  • Look your last on the scarlet letter and its wearer!   (source)
  • The scarlet letter burned on Hester Prynne's bosom.   (source)
  • The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.   (source)
  • If they were resolute to accost her, she laid her finger on the scarlet letter, and passed on.   (source)
  • "Mother," said she, "what does the scarlet letter mean?"   (source)
  • Happy are you, Hester, that wear the scarlet letter openly upon your bosom!   (source)
  • With these words she advanced to the margin of the brook, took up the scarlet letter, and fastened it again into her bosom.   (source)
  • So speaking, she undid the clasp that fastened the scarlet letter, and, taking it from her bosom, threw it to a distance among the withered leaves.   (source)
  • As he spoke, he laid his long fore-finger on the scarlet letter, which forthwith seemed to scorch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot.   (source)
  • Meanwhile Hester Prynne was standing beside the scaffold of the pillory, with the scarlet letter still burning on her breast!   (source)
  • "Thy mother is yonder woman with the scarlet letter," said the seaman, "Wilt thou carry her a message from me?"   (source)
  • Had seven long years, under the torture of the scarlet letter, inflicted so much of misery and wrought out no repentance?   (source)
  • It was whispered by those who peered after her that the scarlet letter threw a lurid gleam along the dark passage-way of the interior.   (source)
  • INTRODUCTORY TO "THE SCARLET LETTER".   (source)
  • Her mother, with the scarlet letter on her breast, glittering in its fantastic embroidery, had long been a familiar object to the townspeople.   (source)
  • Her own dress was of the coarsest materials and the most sombre hue, with only that one ornament—the scarlet letter—which it was her doom to wear.   (source)
  • But, in no long time after the physician's death, the wearer of the scarlet letter disappeared, and Pearl along with her.   (source)
  • Pearl's inevitable tendency to hover about the enigma of the scarlet letter seemed an innate quality of her being.   (source)
  • See ye not, she is the scarlet letter, only capable of being loved, and so endowed with a millionfold the power of retribution for my sin?   (source)
  • THE REVELATION OF THE SCARLET LETTER.   (source)
  • Behold, verily, there is the woman of the scarlet letter: and of a truth, moreover, there is the likeness of the scarlet letter running along by her side!   (source)
  • Closely following the jailer into the dismal apartment, appeared that individual, of singular aspect whose presence in the crowd had been of such deep interest to the wearer of the scarlet letter.   (source)
  • Taking a handful of these, she arranged them along the lines of the scarlet letter that decorated the maternal bosom, to which the burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered.   (source)
  • Whether moved only by her ordinary freakishness, or because an evil spirit prompted her, she put up her small forefinger and touched the scarlet letter.   (source)
  • The whole gang of sailors, likewise, observing the press of spectators, and learning the purport of the scarlet letter, came and thrust their sunburnt and desperado-looking faces into the ring.   (source)
  • The child turned her eyes to the point indicated, and there lay the scarlet letter so close upon the margin of the stream that the gold embroidery was reflected in it.   (source)
  • But, in truth, Pearl was the one as well as the other; and only in consequence of that identity had Hester contrived so perfectly to represent the scarlet letter in her appearance.   (source)
  • But through the remainder of Hester's life there were indications that the recluse of the scarlet letter was the object of love and interest with some inhabitant of another land.   (source)
  • With sudden and desperate tenderness she threw her arms around him, and pressed his head against her bosom, little caring though his cheek rested on the scarlet letter.   (source)
  • "And now, Mistress Prynne," said old Roger Chillingworth, as he was hereafter to be named, "I leave thee alone: alone with thy infant and the scarlet letter!"   (source)
  • It was none the less a fact, however, that in the eyes of the very men who spoke thus, the scarlet letter had the effect of the cross on a nun's bosom.   (source)
  • In the absorbing contemplation of the scarlet letter, I had hitherto neglected to examine a small roll of dingy paper, around which it had been twisted.   (source)
  • "Hester Prynne," said he, fixing his naturally stern regard on the wearer of the scarlet letter, "there hath been much question concerning thee of late."   (source)
  • "Yea, forsooth," replied the bond-servant, staring with wide-open eyes at the scarlet letter, which, being a new-comer in the country, he had never before seen.   (source)
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