All 4 Uses of
reminiscence
in
The Scarlet Letter
- One brief sigh sufficed to carry off the entire burden of these dismal reminiscences.†
Chpt Intr. *
- His reminiscences of good cheer, however ancient the date of the actual banquet, seemed to bring the savour of pig or turkey under one's very nostrils.†
Chpt Intr.
- Reminiscences, the most trifling and immaterial, passages of infancy and school-days, sports, childish quarrels, and the little domestic traits of her maiden years, came swarming back upon her, intermingled with recollections of whatever was gravest in her subsequent life; one picture precisely as vivid as another; as if all were of similar importance, or all alike a play.†
Chpt 2
- Hurrying along the street, the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale encountered the eldest female member of his church, a most pious and exemplary old dame, poor, widowed, lonely, and with a heart as full of reminiscences about her dead husband and children, and her dead friends of long ago, as a burial-ground is full of storied gravestones.†
Chpt 20
Definition:
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(reminiscence) something remembered from the past; or the act of remembering it