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1  "Not thy soul," he answered, with another smile.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
2  Old Roger Chillingworth, with a smile on his face, whispered something in the young clergyman's ear.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
3  "It is as well to have made this step," said Roger Chillingworth to himself, looking after the minister, with a grave smile.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
4  Again, as if her mother's agonised gesture were meant only to make sport for her, did little Pearl look into her eyes, and smile.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
5  If she entered a church, trusting to share the Sabbath smile of the Universal Father, it was often her mishap to find herself the text of the discourse.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
6  She seemed rather an airy sprite, which, after playing its fantastic sports for a little while upon the cottage floor, would flit away with a mocking smile.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
7  There was witchcraft in little Pearl's eyes; and her face, as she glanced upward at the minister, wore that naughty smile which made its expression frequently so elvish.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
8  It was a face, fiend-like, full of smiling malice, yet bearing the semblance of features that she had known full well, though seldom with a smile, and never with malice in them.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
9  The child probably overheard their voices, for, looking up to the window with a bright, but naughty smile of mirth and intelligence, she threw one of the prickly burrs at the Rev.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
10  And Pearl, stepping in mid-leg deep, beheld her own white feet at the bottom; while, out of a still lower depth, came the gleam of a kind of fragmentary smile, floating to and fro in the agitated water.
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ContextHighlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
11  The scene was not without a mixture of awe, such as must always invest the spectacle of guilt and shame in a fellow-creature, before society shall have grown corrupt enough to smile, instead of shuddering at it.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
12  It seemed to be his wish and purpose to mask this expression with a smile, but the latter played him false, and flickered over his visage so derisively that the spectator could see his blackness all the better for it.
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ContextHighlight   In XIV. HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN
13  Weeks, it is true, would sometimes elapse, during which Pearl's gaze might never once be fixed upon the scarlet letter; but then, again, it would come at unawares, like the stroke of sudden death, and always with that peculiar smile and odd expression of the eyes.
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ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
14  In a moment, however, wisely judging that one token of her shame would but poorly serve to hide another, she took the baby on her arm, and with a burning blush, and yet a haughty smile, and a glance that would not be abashed, looked around at her townspeople and neighbours.
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ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
15  Roger Chillingworth readily assented, and went on with his medical supervision of the minister; doing his best for him, in all good faith, but always quitting the patient's apartment, at the close of the professional interview, with a mysterious and puzzled smile upon his lips.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT
16  Certainly, if the meteor kindled up the sky, and disclosed the earth, with an awfulness that admonished Hester Prynne and the clergyman of the day of judgment, then might Roger Chillingworth have passed with them for the arch-fiend, standing there with a smile and scowl, to claim his own.
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ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
17  She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt; no more smile with the household joy, nor mourn with the kindred sorrow; or, should it succeed in manifesting its forbidden sympathy, awakening only terror and horrible repugnance.
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ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
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