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1  He started at a thought that suddenly occurred to him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
2  A woman never overcomes these problems by any exercise of thought.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
3  The thought suffices them, without investing itself in the flesh and blood of action.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
4  But, in the education of her child, the mother's enthusiasm of thought had something to wreak itself upon.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
5  Therefore, as a man who has not thought and philosophised in vain, I seek no vengeance, plot no evil against thee.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
6  Shortly afterwards, the like grisly sense of the humorous again stole in among the solemn phantoms of his thought.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XII. THE MINISTER'S VIGIL
7  Before Mr. Dimmesdale reached home, his inner man gave him other evidences of a revolution in the sphere of thought and feeling.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XX.THE MINISTER IN A MAZE
8  Wretched and sinful as I am, I have had no other thought than to drag on my earthly existence in the sphere where Providence hath placed me.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER
9  If in all these past seven years," thought he, "I could recall one instant of peace or hope, I would yet endure, for the sake of that earnest of Heaven's mercy.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XVIII. A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE
10  In Arthur Dimmesdale, thought and imagination were so active, and sensibility so intense, that the bodily infirmity would be likely to have its groundwork there.
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ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
11  With all these sterling attributes, thought Hester, the evil which she inherited from her mother must be great indeed, if a noble woman do not grow out of this elfish child.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
12  As night approached, it proving impossible to quell her insubordination by rebuke or threats of punishment, Master Brackett, the jailer, thought fit to introduce a physician.
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ContextHighlight   In IV. THE INTERVIEW
13  Much of the marble coldness of Hester's impression was to be attributed to the circumstance that her life had turned, in a great measure, from passion and feeling to thought.
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ContextHighlight   In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER
14  The thought occurred to Hester, that the child might really be seeking to approach her with childlike confidence, and doing what she could, and as intelligently as she knew how, to establish a meeting-point of sympathy.
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ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
15  Attempting to do so, she thought of those long-past days in a distant land, when he used to emerge at eventide from the seclusion of his study and sit down in the firelight of their home, and in the light of her nuptial smile.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XV. HESTER AND PEARL
16  Therefore, so far as his duties would permit, he trod in the shadowy by-paths, and thus kept himself simple and childlike, coming forth, when occasion was, with a freshness, and fragrance, and dewy purity of thought, which, as many people said, affected them like the speech of an angel.
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ContextHighlight   In III. THE RECOGNITION
17  There were others again, true saintly fathers, whose faculties had been elaborated by weary toil among their books, and by patient thought, and etherealised, moreover, by spiritual communications with the better world, into which their purity of life had almost introduced these holy personages, with their garments of mortality still clinging to them.
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ContextHighlight   In XI. THE INTERIOR OF A HEART
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