All 4 Uses of
vista
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Pearl accordingly ran to the bow-window, at the further end of the hall, and looked along the vista of a garden walk, carpeted with closely-shaven grass, and bordered with some rude and immature attempt at shrubbery.†
Chpt 7
- In fact, adown the vista of the garden avenue, a number of persons were seen approaching towards the house.†
Chpt 7 *
- This flitting cheerfulness was always at the further extremity of some long vista through the forest.†
Chpt 16
- He, moving proudly past, enveloped as it were, in the rich music, with the procession of majestic and venerable fathers; he, so unattainable in his worldly position, and still more so in that far vista of his unsympathizing thoughts, through which she now beheld him!†
Chpt 22
Definition:
-
(vista) view
or more rarely:
a view of a possible future