All 17 Uses of
mode
in
The Scarlet Letter
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- In accomplishing the main purpose, it has appeared allowable, by a few extra touches, to give a faint representation of a mode of life not heretofore described, together with some of the characters that move in it, among whom the author happened to make one.†
Chpt Intr.
- What kind of business in life—what mode of glorifying God, or being serviceable to mankind in his day and generation—may that be?†
Chpt Intr.
- In the first place, my coadjutors were not invariably old; there were men among them in their strength and prime, of marked ability and energy, and altogether superior to the sluggish and dependent mode of life on which their evil stars had cast them.†
Chpt Intr.
- Most persons, owing to causes which I may not have space to hint at, suffer moral detriment from this peculiar mode of life.†
Chpt Intr.
- I must not be understood affirming that, in the dressing up of the tale, and imagining the motives and modes of passion that influenced the characters who figure in it, I have invariably confined myself within the limits of the old Surveyor's half-a-dozen sheets of foolscap.†
Chpt Intr.
- Of the fact there could be no doubt and, examining myself and others, I was led to conclusions, in reference to the effect of public office on the character, not very favourable to the mode of life in question.†
Chpt Intr.
- He described him as a man of skill in all Christian modes of physical science, and likewise familiar with whatever the savage people could teach in respect to medicinal herbs and roots that grew in the forest.†
Chpt 4
- He was lodged in the prison, not as suspected of any offence, but as the most convenient and suitable mode of disposing of him, until the magistrates should have conferred with the Indian sagamores respecting his ransom.†
Chpt 4
- Here, indeed, in the sable simplicity that generally characterised the Puritanic modes of dress, there might be an infrequent call for the finer productions of her handiwork.†
Chpt 5
- It is probable that there was an idea of penance in this mode of occupation, and that she offered up a real sacrifice of enjoyment in devoting so many hours to such rude handiwork.†
Chpt 5
- To Hester Prynne it might have been a mode of expressing, and therefore soothing, the passion of her life.†
Chpt 5 *
- After testing both smiles and frowns, and proving that neither mode of treatment possessed any calculable influence, Hester was ultimately compelled to stand aside and permit the child to be swayed by her own impulses.†
Chpt 6
- With many variations, suggested by the nature of his building materials, diversity of climate, and a different mode of social life, Governor Bellingham had planned his new habitation after the residences of gentlemen of fair estate in his native land.†
Chpt 7
- Nevertheless—to hold nothing back from the reader—it was because, on the third day from the present, he was to preach the Election Sermon; and, as such an occasion formed an honourable epoch in the life of a New England Clergyman, he could not have chanced upon a more suitable mode and time of terminating his professional career.†
Chpt 20
- There was some shadow of an attempt of this kind in the mode of celebrating the day on which the political year of the colony commenced.†
Chpt 21
- Then, too, the people were countenanced, if not encouraged, in relaxing the severe and close application to their various modes of rugged industry, which at all other times, seemed of the same piece and material with their religion.†
Chpt 21
- These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness.†
Chpt 22
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions of mode which typically involve a common combination or way of doing something.