All 8 Uses of
bound
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Another figure in the scene is the outward-bound sailor, in quest of a protection; or the recently arrived one, pale and feeble, seeking a passport to the hospital.†
Chpt Intr.
- The chain that bound her here was of iron links, and galling to her inmost soul, but could never be broken.
Chpt 5 (definition 1) *bound = tied
- Here the pale clergyman piled up his library, rich with parchment-bound folios of the Fathers, and the lore of Rabbis, and monkish erudition, of which the Protestant divines, even while they vilified and decried that class of writers, were yet constrained often to avail themselves.
Chpt 9 (definition 1)bound = connected or tied
- At any moment, by an effort of his will, he could discern substances through their misty lack of substance, and convince himself that they were not solid in their nature, like yonder table of carved oak, or that big, square, leather-bound and brazen-clasped volume of divinity.
Chpt 11 (definition 1)
- Yet it was not without heavy misgivings that I thus bound myself, for, having cast off all duty towards other human beings, there remained a duty towards him, and something whispered me that I was betraying it in pledging myself to keep your counsel.†
Chpt 14
- Is there not shade enough in all this boundless forest to hide thy heart from the gaze of Roger Chillingworth?
Chpt 17 (definition 2) *boundless = without boundaries (seemingly limitless)standard suffix: The suffix "-less" in boundless means without. This is the same pattern you see in words like fearless, homeless, and endless.
- His spirit rose, as it were, with a bound, and attained a nearer prospect of the sky, than throughout all the misery which had kept him grovelling on the earth.†
Chpt 18 *
- "Yes; now I will!" answered the child, bounding across the brook, and clasping Hester in her arms "Now thou art my mother indeed! and I am thy little Pearl!"
Chpt 19 (definition 3) *bounding = leaping