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1  The brilliancy might have be fitted Aladdin's palace rather than the mansion of a grave old Puritan ruler.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VII. THE GOVERNOR'S HALL
2  But, in that early severity of the Puritan character, an inference of this kind could not so indubitably be drawn.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In II. THE MARKET-PLACE
3  Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew her forcibly into her arms, confronting the old Puritan magistrate with almost a fierce expression.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VIII. THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER
4  Continually, and in a thousand other ways, did she feel the innumerable throbs of anguish that had been so cunningly contrived for her by the undying, the ever-active sentence of the Puritan tribunal.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In V. HESTER AT HER NEEDLE
5  In pursuance of this resolve, he took up his residence in the Puritan town as Roger Chillingworth, without other introduction than the learning and intelligence of which he possessed more than a common measure.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In IX. THE LEECH
6  The pine-trees, aged, black, and solemn, and flinging groans and other melancholy utterances on the breeze, needed little transformation to figure as Puritan elders; the ugliest weeds of the garden were their children, whom Pearl smote down and uprooted most unmercifully.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL
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