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| a man of kind and GENIAL spirit... |
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| warmly and pleaseantly cheerful |
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| ...have the handling of such MALEFACTRESS as this Hester Prynne... |
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| but greatly beyond what was allowed by the SUMPTUARY regulations of the colony |
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| where INIQUITY is dragged out into the sunshine |
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| at the IGNOMINIOUS letter on her breast |
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| discrediable, humiliating |
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| the scarlet letter threw a LURID gleam along the passageway |
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| it soon proved its EFFICACY |
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| without further EXPOSTULATION or delay |
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| earnest or kindly protest |
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| no genuine and steadfast PENITANCE but something doubtful |
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| a mystic sisterhood would CONTUMACIOUSLY assert itself |
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| in accordance with CAPRICE that ruled the moment |
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| whim, sudden unpredictable change |
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| always in a state of PRETERNATURAL activity |
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| but was soon as IMPERIOUS to be set down again |
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| domineering in a haughty manner |
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| with a voice sweet, TREMULOUS, but powerful |
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| the elders, the deacons were alike IMPORTUNATE that he should make trial |
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| urgent or peristent in solicitation |
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| the VENERABLE structure of King's Chapel |
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| it is AVERRED that the lattice of a chamber window was thrown open |
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| INFAMY was babbling around her in the marketplace |
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| If the latter possess native SAGACITY |
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| As it was impossible to assign a reason for such distrust and ABHORRENCE |
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| In this vain show of EXPIATION |
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| the means by which atonement is made |
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| was held to be the richest and most powerful, and the most REPLETE with heavenly influences |
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| intending a SCURRILOUS jest against your reverence |
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| him, the man of ETHEREAL attributes |
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| the EFFLUENCE of her mother's lawless passion |
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| something that flows out, emanation |
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| the closest PROPINQUITY of the man whom he had most vilely wronged |
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| which the old man was so SEDULOUS to gather |
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| the green letter has no PURPORT |
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| seen in her wild and CAPRICIOUS character |
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| with an asperity that use had never permitted to herself |
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| all acquaintance with this REPINING brook |
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| they were not holding a COLLOQUY that was to decide their fate |
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| for a squirrel is such a CHOLERIC and humorous little personage |
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| irritable, easily angered |
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| so great a VICISSITUDE in his life |
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| could transform her mobile PHYSIOGNOMY |
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| the outward appearance of anything offering insight into its character |
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| that a kiss might prove a talisman |
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| anything whose presence exercisers a remarkable or powerful influence on human feelings |
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| a good man's prayers are golden RECOMPENSE |
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| the people were COUNTENANCED |
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| that this very ship's crew had been guilty of DEPREDATIONS |
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| it breathed passion and PATHOS |
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| he had made the manner of his death a PARABLE |
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| a statement that conveys a meaning indirectly with the use of a comparison |
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