FLOWER in Classic Quotes

1  Still came the battery of flowers, almost invariably hitting the mark, and covering the mother's breast with hurts for which she could find no balm in this world, nor knew how to seek it in another.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL

2  Finding it so directly on the threshold of our narrative, which is now about to issue from that inauspicious portal, we could hardly do otherwise than pluck one of its flowers, and present it to the reader.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In I. THE PRISON DOOR

3  We have as yet hardly spoken of the infant; that little creature, whose innocent life had sprung, by the inscrutable decree of Providence, a lovely and immortal flower, out of the rank luxuriance of a guilty passion.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL

4  In the afternoon of a certain summer's day, after Pearl grew big enough to run about, she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild flowers, and flinging them, one by one, at her mother's bosom; dancing up and down like a little elf whenever she hit the scarlet letter.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In VI. PEARL

5  The dress, so proper was it to little Pearl, seemed an effluence, or inevitable development and outward manifestation of her character, no more to be separated from her than the many-hued brilliancy from a butterfly's wing, or the painted glory from the leaf of a bright flower.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In XXI. THE NEW ENGLAND HOLIDAY

6  Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.

The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel Hawthorne
ContextHighlight   In I. THE PRISON DOOR