Both Uses of
awry
in
The Scarlet Letter
- The whole tribe of decorous personages, who had never heretofore been seen with a single hair of their heads awry, would start into public view with the disorder of a nightmare in their aspects.†
p. 101.9awry = in improper position; or in an unintended way
- By thy first step awry, thou didst plant the germ of evil; but since that moment it has all been a dark necessity.†
p. 117.3 *