1 This learned stranger was exemplary as regarded at least the outward forms of a religious life; and early after his arrival, had chosen for his spiritual guide the Reverend Mr. Dimmesdale.
2 In other words, Mr. Dimmesdale, whose sensibility of nerve often produced the effect of spiritual intuition, would become vaguely aware that something inimical to his peace had thrust itself into relation with him.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 3 A bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In X. THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT 4 Yet, had little Pearl never come to her from the spiritual world, it might have been far otherwise.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIII. ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER 5 But, as matters stand with my soul, whatever of good capacity there originally was in me, all of God's gifts that were the choicest have become the ministers of spiritual torment.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER 6 By means of them, the sufferer's conscience had been kept in an irritated state, the tendency of which was, not to cure by wholesome pain, but to disorganize and corrupt his spiritual being.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XVII. THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER 7 It might be spiritual and imparted to him by angelical ministrations.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION 8 These, perhaps, if more distinctly heard, might have been only a grosser medium, and have clogged the spiritual sense.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION 9 And at once in the conversation with the aide-de-camp Oblonsky had a sense of relaxation and relief after the conversation with Levin, which always put him to too great a mental and spiritual strain.
10 "But, you know, there are always moral, spiritual causes at the back in these cases," the family doctor permitted himself to interpolate with a subtle smile.
11 Kitty said not a word of that; she talked of nothing but her spiritual condition.
12 He looked at her and was struck by a new spiritual beauty in her face.
13 He looked on this spiritual exercise as a harmful and dangerous abuse of the fancy.
14 Shame at their spiritual nakedness crushed her and infected him.
15 It was revealed to her that besides the instinctive life to which Kitty had given herself up hitherto there was a spiritual life.