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Fire / Water

Coldness

The Interview

Chillingworth
half coldly
cold
cold composure
chill, and without a household fire

Hester at Her Needle

cool stare
cold snow within her bosom
unsunned snow
faint, chill crimson

The Leech

But the air was too fresh and chill to be long breathed
life-long chill

The Leech and His Patient

not of warm affections

The Minister’s Vigil

dank and chill night-air would creep into his frame
chilliness of the night
half frozen to death
chill despondency

Hester and Pearl

chill of so many lonely hours among his books might be taken off the scholar’s heart
chills oftener than caresses you
sorrow that lay cold in her mother’s heart, and converted it into a tomb

A Forest Walk

chill

The Pastor and His Parishioner

coldly shuddering
hand, chill as death
chill hand of Hester Prynne
cold as it was
cold
in cold blood

The New England Holiday

frozen calmness

The Procession

her cold hands
cold shadow
cool

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Fire

The Market-Place

burning blush
summer morning
summer morning
bright morning sun

The Recognition

fireside
flames of the infernal pit
hot, mid-day sun burning down upon her face, and lighting up its shame

The Interview

burning shame
scorch […] red-hot
bale-fire of that scarlet letter blazing
without a household fire
sought to warm thee by the warmth which thy presence made there

Hester at Her Needle

scarlet letter flaming
fireside
burning shame
red-hot with infernal fire
seared
sunshine, which, falling on all alike

Pearl

as a torch kindles a flame

The Governor’s Hall

fire in her and throughout her
the very brightest jet of flame
scorched

The Elf-Child and the Minister

sears
warmer

The Leech

warmth and cheerfulness of home
fire
who seeks to warm himself only at another’s fireside
the fire in his laboratory had been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel

The Leech and His Patient

burning
furnace
ghastly fire that darted
summer-time
hot passion

The Interior of a Heart

tongues of flame
Tongue of Flame
burning wrath

The Minister’s Vigil

vital warmth
meteors
burning out to waste
meteoric
blazing spear, a sword of flame
meteor
burning duskily through a veil of cloud
meteoric
meteor kindled up

Another View of Hester

Hester’s nature showed itself warm and ric
red-hot brand

Hester and the Physician

on fire, and kept on smouldering duskily within his breast, until, by some casual puff of passion, it was blown into a momentary flame
adding fuel to those fiery tortures
The scarlet letter burned on Hester Prynne’s bosom
burned away in torments
letting the lurid fire of his heart blaze out before her eyes
warm affections
red-hot iron

Hester and Pearl

fire-light
warm reality
melt in the warm sun

A Forest Walk

it glows like a red flame

The Pastor and His Parishioner

Mine burns
need not burn

A Flood of Sunshine

fireside

The Minister in a Maze

fireplace
into the fire

The New England Holiday

burn

The Procession

furnace-glow
red flame
sea-fire
burning
sear
scorching

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

words of flame
burning
like a flame that sinks down hopelessly among the late-decaying embers
burning
seared
flame
burning finger
burning torture
always at red-heat

Conclusion

wilting in the sun
at her fireside

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Meteor

The Minister’s Vigil

a light gleamed far and wide over all the muffled sky. It was doubtless caused by one of those meteors, which the night-watcher may so often observe burning out to waste, in the vacant regions of the atmosphere. So powerful was its radiance, that it thoroughly illuminated the dense medium of cloud betwixt the sky and earth. The great vault brightened, like the dome of an immense lamp. It showed the familiar scene of the street, with the distinctness of mid-day, but also with the awfulness that is always imparted to familiar objects by an unaccustomed light. The wooden houses, with their jutting stories and quaint gable-peaks; the doorsteps and thresholds, with the early grass springing up about them; the garden-plots, black with freshly turned earth; the wheel-track, little worn, and, even in the market-place, margined with green on either side;—all were visible, but with a singularity of aspect that seemed to give another moral interpretation to the things of this world than they had ever borne before. And there stood the minister, with his hand over his heart; and Hester Prynne, with the embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom; and little Pearl, herself a symbol, and the connecting link between those two. They stood in the noon of that strange and solemn splendor, as if it were the light that is to reveal all secrets, and the daybreak that shall unite all who belong to one another.
There was witchcraft in little Pearl’s eyes; and her face, as she glanced upward at the minister, wore that naughty smile which made its expression frequently so elvish. She withdrew her hand from Mr. Dimmesdale’s, and pointed across the street. But he clasped both his hands over his breast, and cast his eyes towards the zenith.
Nothing was more common, in those days, than to interpret all meteoric appearances, and other natural phenomena, that occurred with less regularity than the rise and set of sun and moon, as so many revelations from a supernatural source. Thus, a blazing spear, a sword of flame, a bow, or a sheaf of arrows, seen in the midnight sky, prefigured Indian warfare. Pestilence was known to have been foreboded by a shower of crimson light. We doubt whether any marked event, for good or evil, ever befell New England, from its settlement down to Revolutionary times, of which the inhabitants had not been previously warned by some spectacle of this nature. Not seldom, it had been seen by multitudes. Oftener, however, its credibility rested on the faith of some lonely eyewitness, who beheld the wonder through the colored, magnifying, and distorting medium of his imagination, and shaped it more distinctly in his after-thought. It was, indeed, a majestic idea, that the destiny of nations should be revealed, in these awful hieroglyphics, on the cope of heaven. A scroll so wide might not be deemed too expansive for Providence to write a people’s doom upon. The belief was a favorite one with our forefathers, as betokening that their infant commonwealth was under a celestial guardianship of peculiar intimacy and strictness. But what shall we say, when an individual discovers a revelation, addressed to himself alone, on the same vast sheet of record! In such a case, it could only be the symptom of a highly disordered mental state, when a man, rendered morbidly self-contemplative by long, intense, and secret pain, had extended his egotism over the whole expanse of nature, until the firmament itself should appear no more than a fitting page for his soul’s history and fate.
We impute it, therefore, solely to the disease in his own eye and heart, that the minister, looking upward to the zenith, beheld there the appearance of an immense letter,—the letter A,—marked out in lines of dull red light. Not but the meteor may have shown itself at that point, burning duskily through a veil of cloud; but with no such shape as his guilty imagination gave it; or, at least, with so little definiteness, that another’s guilt might have seen another symbol in it

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Water

The Recognition

sea
bottom of the sea

The Interview

a cup of water
like oil thrown on the waves of a tempestuous sea

Hester at Her Needle

basin of the sea
distil drops of bitterness

The Leech

bottom of the ocean
sea- shore
waves
flow forth in a dark, but transparent stream
ebb and flow of the minister’s life-tide
noontide

The Leech and His Patient

bespatter the Governor himself with water, at the cattle-trough in Spring Lane

The Minister’s Vigil

pouring like a torrent
shower

Another View of Hester

sea-shore

Hester and the Physician

margin of the water, and play with the shells and tangled sea-weed
moist margin of the sea
pool, left by the retiring tide
out of the pool
Come thou into the pool!”
floating to and fro in the agitated water

Hester and Pearl

in a pool of water
Then she took up the white foam, that streaked the line of the advancing tide
sea-breeze

A Forest Walk

brook flowing
drowned
current, and compelled it to form eddies and black depths at some points; while, in its swifter and livelier passages
course of the stream, they could catch the reflected light from its water
course of this small brook
flowed
smooth surface of a pool
streamlet
“O, brook! O, foolish and tiresome little brook!”
brook
brook
current
gushed from a well-spring
had flowed
little stream
sad little brook
brook

The Pastor and His Parishioner

A Flood of Sunshine

stream
water
little brook
flood
little brook
brook

The Child at the Brook-Side

brook
the brook chanced to form a pool, so smooth and quiet that it reflected
In the brook beneath
brook
running stream
brook
brook
brook
brook
brook
brook
brook
stream
mid-ocean
brook
drowning it in the deep sea
brook
brook
running to the brook, stooped over it, and bathed her forehead, until the unwelcome kiss was quite washed off, and diffused through a long lapse of the gliding water.
melancholy brook

The Minister in a Maze

brook
sea-board
a ship lay in the harbour
vessel
sail for Bristol
vessel
plashy
brook
a drunken seaman, one of the ship’s crew
dissolute sailors
inky

The New England Holiday

ocean will quench
sailors
brook-side
little brook would hardly wash it off!
some mariners,—a part of the crew of the vessel from the Spanish Main,—who had come ashore
seafaring class
on their proper element. The sailor
that this very ship’s crew
nautical brotherhood
But the sea, in those old times, heaved, swelled, and foamed very much at its own will, or subject only to the tempestuous wind, with hardly any attempts at regulation by human law. The buccaneer on the wave
seafaring men
commander of the questionable vessel
shipmaster
as to a fish his glistening scales
mariner
shipmaster
mariner

The Procession

floating
long heaves and swells
like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide.
brook
by the brook
group of mariners, the swarthy-cheeked wild men of the ocean
as if a flake of the sea-foam had taken the shape of a little maid, and were gifted with a soul of the sea-fire, that flashes beneath the prow in the night-time.
seafaring men—the shipmaster
seaman
shipmaster’s
whole gang of sailors

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

borne aloft, as on the swelling waves of the sea
shower
roar of the sea
retiring wave

Conclusion

across the sea
sea-shore

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Fabric

Material fabric

The Market-Place

fibre
chain of
frame
bodice of her gown
bodice of her gown
wrought or fastened into her dress
gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread
artistically done
last and fitting decoration to the apparel which she wore
Her attire
wrought for the occasion
modelled much after her own fancy
rich gown

The Recognition

native garb
clad in a strange disarray of civilized and savage costume.
seemingly careless arrangement of his heterogeneous garb

The Interview

dress
garment

Hester at Her Needle

garments
fabrics of silk and gold
dress
Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves
sable cloth
robes of state
garments
ruff
scarfs
band
cap
veil
Her own dress
attire
making coarse garments
fibre
mere scarlet cloth

Pearl

attire
garb
tissues
dresses
arrayed
robes
gown
unlikeliest materials [?]
bunch of rags

The Governor’s Hall

garb
arraying
tunic
gold thread
garb
coat, which was the customary garb
curtain
cushioned
cushion
ruffs and robes
suit of mail
manufactured

The Elf-Child and the Minister

loose gown and easy cap
ruff
curtain
bedizen thee
clad soberly
garb
folds of the window-curtain

The Leech

curtains

The Leech and His Patient

garments
vestment

The Interior of a Heart

garments
garments
garments
garb
Attiring himself

The Minister’s Vigil

night-cap
long white gown
Geneva cloak
flannel gown
night-gear
King James’s ruff
skirts
kerchiefs
have taken his measure for a robe
veil
black glove, which the minister recognized as his own.
glove
without gloves

Another View of Hester

silk
garments wrought
monarch’s robe
pillow
studied austerity of her dress
cap
pillow
make herself a scarf, or mantle, and a head-dress
devising drapery and costume
mermaid’s garb

Hester and Pearl

pillow

A Forest Walk

gown

The Pastor and His Parishioner

clad in garments
garments

A Flood of Sunshine

clerical band, the judicial robe
robe

The Child at the Brook-Side

The Minister in a Maze

clad in her gray robe
cast-off garment
curtains
Geneva cloak
cloth
buckramed
head-dress, a rich gown of velvet, and a ruff done up with the famous yellow starch
high head-dress
high head-dress
tapestried
curtains

The New England Holiday

attire of deer-skins
clad in a garment of coarse gray cloth
simple robe. The dress
garb
Sabbath-day clothes
clad in gray
great robe of state
proper garb
deer-skin robes, wampum-belts, red and yellow ochre, and feathers
wide short trousers were confined about the waist by belts, often clasped with a rough plate of gold
broad- brimmed hats
black cloaks, starched bands, and steeple-crowned hats
ribbons on his garment
lace on his hat
garb

The Procession

clad in
ruff
stomacher
gown of rich velvet
garment
folds
hat
burial-robe

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

cushions
ministerial band

Conclusion

gray robe

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Needle

The Market-Place

interfused
coarser fibre
wrought or fastened
elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread
had wrought […] had modelled
fantastically embroidered
good skill at her needle
hath stitched so curiously
Not a stitch in that embroidered letter
swarming back upon her, intermingled with recollections
intricate and narrow thoroughfares
fantastically embroidered with gold thread

The Recognition

disentangling its mesh of good and evil
meddle with

The Interview

so close a relation
medical preparations, one of which he mingled with a cup of water
mingle another draught
a woman, a man, a child, amongst whom and myself there exist the closest ligaments.

Hester at Her Needle

plying her needle
art that sufficed […] to supply food for her thriving infant and herself. It was the art—then, as now, almost the only one within a woman’s grasp—of needle-work. She bore on her breast, in the curiously embroidered letter, a specimen of her delicate and imaginative skill, of which the dames of a court might gladly have availed themselves, to add the richer and more spiritual adornment of human ingenuity to their fabrics of silk and gold.
finer productions of her handiwork
whatever was elaborate in compositions of this kind
painfully wrought bands
gorgeously embroidered gloves
Public ceremonies, such as ordinations, the installation of magistrates,
In the array of funerals, too
typify, by manifold emblematic devices of sable cloth and snowy lawn
Baby-linen […] afforded still another possibility of toil and emolument
her handiwork became what would now be termed the fashion.
she had ready and fairly equited employment for as many hours as she saw fit to occupy with her needle
wrought by her sinful hands
Her needle-work was seen on the ruff of the Governor; military men wore it on their scarfs, and the minister on his band; it decked the baby’s little cap; it was shut up, to be mildewed and moulder away, in the coffins of the dead.
embroider
fantastic ingenuity
small expenditure in the decoration of her infant
making coarse garments for the poor
such rude handiwork
exquisite productions of her needle,
delicate toil of the needle. To Hester Prynne it might have been a mode of expressing, and therefore soothing, the passion of her life.
softer moral and intellectual fibre
embroidery

The Governor’s Hall

a pair of gloves, which she had fringed and embroidered to his order
delivery of a pair of embroidered gloves
abundantly embroidered in fantasies and flourishes of gold thread
[elaborately carved with wreaths of oaken flowers]

The Leech and His Patient

[waiving]
meddlest

The Interior of a Heart

texture of mind

The Minister’s Vigil

intertwined, in the same inextricable knot, the agony of heaven-defying guilt and vain repentance.
embroidered letter glimmering on her bosom

Another View of Hester

The links that united her to the rest of human kind—links of flowers, or silk, or gold, or whatever the material—had all been broken. Here was the iron link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break. Like all other ties, it brought along with it its obligations.
scarlet letter on her breast, glittering in its fantastic embroidery
garments wrought for him by the fingers that could have embroidered a monarch’s robe
embroidered letter
embroidered badge

Hester and the Physician

The letter is gayly embroidered

Hester and Pearl

had suffered the smile of her lips and eyes to mingle and melt into his own.
She inherited her mother’s gift for devising drapery and costume.
gold thread

The Pastor and His Parishioner

intermixed

A Flood of Sunshine

intricate
embroidered

The Child at the Brook-Side

gold embroidery

The New England Holiday

garment of coarse gray cloth
chased and golden beaker
contrive the child’s apparel, was the same that had achieved a task perhaps more difficult, in imparting so distinct a peculiarity to Hester’s simple robe.
grotesque and brilliant embroidery to the great robe of state
savage finery of curiously embroidered deer-skin robes, wampum-belts, red and yellow ochre, and feathers

The Procession

great magnificence, with a triple ruff, a broidered stomacher, a gown of rich velvet, and a gold-headed cane
twined it around her neck and waist
such happy skill
brilliantly embroidered

Conclusion

wrought by delicate fingers [?]
Hester was seen embroidering a baby-garment, with such a lavish richness of golden fancy as would have raised a public tumult, had any infant, thus apparelled, been shown to our sombre-hued community.

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