Both Uses of
harass
in
The Scarlet Letter
- Bred up from boyhood in the Custom-House, it was his proper field of activity; and the many intricacies of business, so harassing to the interloper, presented themselves before him with the regularity of a perfectly comprehended system.†
p. 24.6
- With her mind harassed by the terrible perplexity in which the shipmaster's intelligence involved her, she was also subjected to another trial.†
p. 229.1 *
Definition:
to repeatedly bother or attack