Rappaccini's Daughter — Vocabulary
Nathanial Hawthorne
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...an observer might easily have overlooked the merely physical attributes and have seen only this wonderful energy.6 more

A fragrance was diffused from it which Giovanni recognized as identical with that which he had attributed to Beatrice's breath,6 more

The young stranger, who was not unstudied in the great poem of his country, recollected that one of the ancestors of this family, and perhaps an occupant of this very mansion, had been pictured by Dante as a partaker of the immortal agonies of his Inferno.†7 more

Hast thou grown so poisonous that this deadly insect perishes by thy breath?†4 more

No; that garden is cultivated by the own hands of Signor Giacomo Rappaccini, the famous doctor, who, I warrant him, has been heard of as far as Naples.†4 more

His face was all overspread with a most sickly and sallow hue, but yet so pervaded with an expression of piercing and active intellect that an observer might easily have overlooked the merely physical attributes and have seen only this wonderful energy.†3 more

In any case, he generally contents himself with a very slight embroidery of outward manners,—the faintest possible counterfeit of real life,—and endeavors to create an interest by some less obvious peculiarity of the subject.†3 more

Nevertheless, in spite of this deep intelligence on his part, there was no approach to intimacy between himself and these vegetable existences.†1 more

"You are a connoisseur in flowers, signor," said Beatrice, with a smile, alluding to the bouquet which he had flung her from the window.†1 more

In the course of the day he paid his respects to Signor Pietro Baglioni, professor of medicine in the university, a physician of eminent repute to whom Giovanni had brought a letter of introduction.†1 more

But he strove hard to quell them and to respond to Baglioni with a true lover's perfect faith.†2 more

Odors, being a sort of element combined of the sensual and the spiritual, are apt to deceive us in this manner.†2 more

"Accursed one!" cried he, with venomous scorn and anger.†1 more

As he crossed the threshold he was met by old Lisabetta, who smirked and smiled, and was evidently desirous to attract his attention; vainly, however, as the ebullition of his feelings had momentarily subsided into a cold and dull vacuity.1 more

All about the pool into which the water subsided grew various plants, that seemed to require a plentiful supply of moisture for the nourishment of gigantic leaves, and in some instances, flowers gorgeously magnificent.1 more

No sooner was Guasconti alone in his chamber than the image of Beatrice came back to his passionate musings, invested with all the witchery that had been gathering around it ever since his first glimpse of her, and now likewise imbued with a tender warmth of girlish womanhood.†4 more

The distrustful gardener, while plucking away the dead leaves or pruning the too luxuriant growth of the shrubs, defended his hands with a pair of thick gloves.†2 more

Thou hast made me as hateful, as ugly, as loathsome and deadly a creature as thyself—a world's wonder of hideous monstrosity!†1 more

She looked redundant with life, health, and energy; all of which attributes were bound down and compressed, as it were and girdled tensely, in their luxuriance, by her virgin zone.†

there is a medicine, potent, as a wise physician has assured me, and almost divine in its efficacy.†1 more