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Voice / Silence

Breath

The Market-Place

  • full power of her lungs

The Recognition

  • long respiration

The Interview

  • Breathe not
  • Breathe not

Pearl

  • gasping for breath

The Leech

  • too fresh and chill to be long breathed
  • an inarticulate breath

The Leech and His Patient

  • last draws free air, after long stifling with his own polluted breath.

The Interior of a Heart

  • breathed
  • More than once, he had cleared his throat, and drawn in the long, deep, and tremulous breath, which, when sent forth again

Another View of Hester

  • breathe the common air

Hester and the Physician

  • That he now breathes

A Forest Walk

  • both the minister and she would need the whole wide world to breathe in

The Pastor and His Parishioner

  • at such breathless epochs
  • gasping for breath
  • breathing the same air

A Flood of Sunshine

  • each breath of emotion
  • breathing the wild, free atmosphere

The Child at the Brook-Side

  • she had drawn an hour’s free breath!—

The Minister in a Maze

  • frequent pauses for breath
  • -breathing
  • free air which I have breathed

The New England Holiday

  • breathless

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

  • they needed more breath
  • nor had inspiration ever breathed through mortal lips more evidently than it did through his
  • in the same breath
  • expiring breath

Conclusion

  • yielding up his breath

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Hearing

The Market-Place

  • hear

The Recognition

  • But the mother did not seem to hear it.
  • have heard of
  • she scarcely heard
  • Hearken
  • hearing
  • in the hearing of all men
  • thou hearest
  • heard
  • upon her ears.

Pearl

  • could Hester Prynne have heard […] and have distinguished and unravelled
  • overhearing

The Governor’s Hall

  • reached her ears
  • I hear voices

The Elf-Child and the Minister

  • ear

The Leech

  • He was heard
  • into his companion’s ear

The Leech and His Patient

  • they heard
  • overheard

The Interior of a Heart

  • the angels might else have listened to
  • his hearers
  • They heard it all

The Minister’s Vigil

  • were often heard to pass over
  • hearing no symptoms
  • he now heard
  • and the minister heard
  • bending his ear close to her lips.
  • into his ear, […], but was only such gibberish as children may be heard
  • “But did your reverence hear of
  • “I had not heard of it.”

Hester and the Physician

  • I hear

Hester and Pearl

  • she heard

A Forest Walk

  • after listening awhile to its talk.
  • I hear a footstep

The Pastor and His Parishioner

  • listening to my words
  • listening

A Flood of Sunshine

  • She heard her mother’s voice
  • she heard her mother’s voice

The Child at the Brook-Side

  • in my ear

The Minister in a Maze

  • moment of putting his lips to the old woman’s ear
  • “I joy to hear it,”

The New England Holiday

  • only the old trees can hear
  • without risk of being overheard

The Procession

  • was heard approaching
  • ever heard
  • heard nothing
  • in thine ear!
  • all the market-place could hear her
  • were heard commencing his discourse.
  • another auditor
  • bring the whole sermon to her ears
  • a listener
  • Hester Prynne listened with such intentness
  • perhaps, if more distinctly heard,
  • all that could be heard, and scarcely heard,
  • if the auditor listened intently
  • who had often heard of the scarlet letter
  • audience

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

  • listening audience had been borne aloft, as on the swelling waves of the sea,
  • auditors
  • His hearers could not rest
  • hear
  • audience
  • Now was heard again
  • auditors
  • which was yet reverberating in their ears.

Conclusion

  • others had heard

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Laugh

The Market-Place

  • laugh
  • roar of laughter burst

Pearl

  • laugh
  • laugh anew, and louder than before
  • laughing
  • Pearl laughed
  • laughing

The Elf-Child and the Minister

  • laughed

The Leech and His Patient

  • till the child laughed aloud, and shouted

The Interior of a Heart

  • laughing bitterly
  • bitter laugh

The Minister’s Vigil

  • rejoiced, with jeering laughter!
  • almost laughed at them
  • burst into a great peal of laughter. It was immediately responded to by a light, airy, childish laugh, in which, with a thrill of the heart
  • laughed
  • Pearl laughed again.
  • laughed aloud.

Hester and Pearl

  • laughing

A Forest Walk

  • stood laughing

The Pastor and His Parishioner

  • I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am! And Satan laughs at it!”

The Minister in a Maze

  • laughing

The New England Holiday

  • through all the talk and laughter

The Procession

  • Laughing so shrilly

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Murmurs / Whispers

The Market-Place

  • whispered

The Recognition

  • whispering a few words
  • murmur
  • murmur
  • murmured
  • whispered

The Interview

  • whispered
  • murmured

Hester at Her Needle

  • whispered the dark story among themselves,—had the summer breeze murmured about it,—
  • whispers

The Elf-Child and the Minister

  • whispered
  • whispered

The Leech

  • plash and murmur
  • wind-anthem

The Leech and His Patient

  • muttered

The Minister’s Vigil

  • muttered
  • whispered
  • whispered
  • gasped
  • muttered
  • “Quickly!—and as low as thou canst whisper.”
  • mumbled

Another View of Hester

  • whisper

Hester and the Physician

  • whispered me
  • something whispered me

Hester and Pearl

  • elf-child sighed
  • with as much vivacity of impression as if they had actually been whispered into her ear.

A Forest Walk

  • it should whisper
  • do not be all the time sighing and murmuring!”

The Pastor and His Parishioner

  • murmured
  • whispered
  • in a deep whisper.

A Flood of Sunshine

  • another woe to carry onward, besides the unintelligible tale which it still kept murmuring about
  • heaved a long, deep sigh
  • whispered

The Child at the Brook-Side

  • whispered
  • whispered
  • heavy sigh
  • trees, which, with their multitudinous tongues, would whisper long of what had passed there, and no mortal be the wiser. And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened, and whereof it still kept up a murmuring babble, with not a whit more cheerfulness of tone than for ages heretofore.

The Minister in a Maze

  • whisper
  • whispered

The Procession

  • murmur
  • whispered
  • whispered the old lady confidentially to Hester
  • murmur
  • whisper
  • sighing

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

  • murmur and half-hushed tumult
  • sigh
  • The shout died into a murmur
  • whispered
  • murmured
  • whispered
  • this murmur that rolled so heavily

Conclusion

  • whispered

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Music

Pearl

  • music

The Minister in a Maze

  • grand and solemn music of its oracles
  • organ-pipe

The New England Holiday

  • She broke continually into shouts of a wild, inarticulate, and sometimes piercing music.
  • music
  • no minstrel with his harp and legendary ballad, nor gleeman, with an ape dancing to his music;

The Procession

  • the sound of military music
  • First came the music. It comprised a variety of instruments, perhaps imperfectly adapted to one another, and played with no great skill, but yet attaining the great object for which the harmony of drum and clarion addresses itself to the multitude,
  • music
  • loud and piercing music, that swelled
  • ever heard the music
  • enveloped, as it were, in the rich music
  • music
  • when Somebody was fiddler
  • mere tone and cadence. Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

  • highly wrought and symphonious feeling, to produce that more impressive sound than the organ-tones of the blast
  • music still played the stately and rejoicing march

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Silence

The Market-Place

  • Hush
  • without a murmur

The Recognition

  • he slowly and calmly raised his finger, made a gesture with it in the air, and laid it on his lips.
  • absolutely refuseth to speak
  • silent
  • not silent
  • silence
  • I will not speak!”
  • She will not speak!” murmured
  • She will not speak!”
  • to hush it

The Interview

  • quiet

Hester at Her Needle

  • even the silence
  • gliding silently

Pearl

  • she would not speak again
  • “Hush, Pearl, hush! Thou must not talk so!” answered the mother, suppressing a groan.

The Governor’s Hall

  • “Hush, child, hush!”
  • Do not cry
  • silent

The Elf-Child and the Minister

  • many ungracious refusals to answer
  • on ceasing to speak

The Leech

  • should never more be spoken
  • lock and key of her silence
  • He listened in silence
  • silence

The Leech and His Patient

  • unutterable
  • unutterable
  • kept silent
  • unutterable torment
  • silence

The Minister’s Vigil

  • silently
  • silent

Another View of Hester

  • keep woman quiet

Hester and the Physician

  • no choice to me, save to be silent
  • “Peace, Hester, peace!”

Hester and Pearl

  • after a moment’s silence
  • “What shall I say?” thought Hester to herself.
  • “Hold thy tongue

The Pastor and His Parishioner

  • “Hush, Hester!”

The Child at the Brook-Side

  • silently
  • without responding in any manner to these honey-sweet expressions
  • silently

The Minister in a Maze

  • thus communed with himself
  • speechless

The New England Holiday

  • “Be quiet, Pearl!

The Procession

  • silently
  • “Hold thy peace, dear little Pearl!” whispered
  • sighing amid a desolate silence

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

  • There was a momentary silence
  • that they remained silent and inactive spectators
  • “Hush, Hester, hush!”
  • silent till then

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