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Inward / Outward

Inward

The Market-Place

from within

The Recognition

had so cultivated his mental part
like a man chiefly accustomed to look inward, and to whom external matters are of little value and import, unless they bear relation to something within his mind.
evil within thee
inward and inevitable necessity
interior

Hester at Her Needle

her position, although she understood it well, and was in little danger of forgetting it
again subsided into the depths of her bosom

Pearl

various properties of her inner life
spirit
Mindful, however, of her own errors and misfortunes [?]
instinct, as it seemed, with which the child comprehended
ever creative spirit
became spiritually adapted to whatever drama occupied the stage of her inner world

The Governor’s Hall

intrinsic
matter of conscience

The Elf-Child and the Minister

long established and legitimate taste for all good and comfortable things
genial benevolence of his private life
human spirit
feeling which inspires her
earnestly, and with such bitterness of spirit
earnestness
accorded spontaneously by a spiritual instinct, and therefore seeming to imply in us something truly worthy to be loved
analyze that child’s nature, and, from its make and mould, to give a shrewd guess at the father

The Leech

spiritual
spiritual
naturally reserved sensibility
spiritual
have its groundwork there
private character
clergyman’s intimacy

The Leech and His Patient

spiritual
minister’s dim interior
whose sensibility of nerve often produced the effect of spiritual intuition, would become vaguely aware
earnestly desired it, but could not
very constitution of their nature
disorder
not so much in itself
be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part
a sickness, a sore place, if we may so call it, in your spirit
after a few hours of privacy, was sensible that the disorder of his nerves
spirit now withdrawn into itself

The Interior of a Heart

malice, hitherto latent
minister’s interior world
his genuine impulse
inward trouble
spirit’s
in his inmost soul

The Minister’s Vigil

Remorse
spirits
another moral interpretation
psychological state
vowed within themselves
so confused was his remembrance, that he had almost brought himself to look at the events of the past night as visionary

Another View of Hester

His moral force was abased into more than childish weakness. It grovelled helpless on the ground, even while his intellectual faculties retained their pristine strength, or had perhaps acquired a morbid energy, which disease only could have given them.
own conscience
Individuals in private life, meanwhile

Hester and the Physician

eager, searching, almost fierce, yet carefully guarded look
Not improbably, he had never before viewed himself as he did now.

The Pastor and His Parishioner

two spirits
then look inward
spiritual infirmities
sufferer’s conscience had been kept in an irritated state
spiritual being
spirit so shattered and subdued

A Flood of Sunshine

each breath of emotion, and his every thought
conscience
His spirit rose
spirit
spirits

The Minister in a Maze

introspection
wear one face to himself
his inner man
interior kingdom
growing out of a profounder self than that which opposed the impulse.
he was conscious of another impulse

The New England Holiday

deeply incorporated with her being

The Procession

There was a sense within her,
very inmost spirits had yielded to his control

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

region of another’s mind, were returning into themselves

Conclusion

wonderful operation of his spirit upon the body
from the inmost heart outwardly

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Outward

The Recognition

that it could not fail to mould the physical to itself
to whom external matters are of little value and import
sorrow without

The Interview

outward world
fame
outward honor
fame

Hester at Her Needle

under a new exterior
chose to mortify itself, by putting on, for ceremonials of pomp and state, the garments that had been wrought by her sinful hands.
veil which was to cover
in the little world with which she was outwardly connected
outward guise of purity was but a lie
outwardly connected

Pearl

outward mutability
without undergoing any outward change

The Governor’s Hall

on its exterior
air
This bright panoply was not meant for mere idle show
appearance
she seemed
appeared already to

The Elf-Child and the Minister

impression made by his aspect
show himself
public
outward form of either of those celebrated works

The Leech

matronly fame
at least the outward forms of a religious life
form grew emaciated
indicative of
now known to be
like one
strong interest which the physician ever manifested in the young clergyman
physician’s frankly offered skill
manifestly
whether imposed or natural, marked all his deportment
it would seem
recognized character as
public affairs
it truly seemed
public
seemingly miraculous cures
aspect

The Leech and His Patient

pure as they deem him,—all spiritual as he seems
in the shape of
fair in reputation
shrink from displaying themselves black and filthy in the view of men
looking pure as new-fallen snow
while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.
O wise and pious friend
false show can be better
it must needs be better for the sufferer to be free to show his pain
nor as outwardly manifested,—in so far, at least, as the symptoms have been laid open to my observation
tokens of your aspect
outward and physical evil is laid open
bodily disease, which we look upon as whole and entire within itself,
hath immediately its appropriate manifestation in your bodily frame.
hurrieth him out of himself!
unseemly outbreak of temper
This expression was invisible in Mr. Dimmesdale’s presence, but grew strongly evident

The Interior of a Heart

though externally the same
Calm, gentle, passionless, as he appeared
but active now
aspect of affairs
not merely the external presence
brilliant popularity
His fame, though still on its upward slope
undissembled expression of it in his aspect

Another View of Hester

men of rank, on whom their eminent position imposed the guardianship of the public morals.
outward semblance is the same
it can never show itself more
persons who speculate the most boldly often conform with the most perfect quietude to the external regulations of society
good fame

Hester and the Physician

permitting the whole evil within him to be written on his features.
overthrow or preservation of his fair fame and his earthly state

A Forest Walk

good fame
He looked haggard and feeble, and betrayed a nerveless despondency in his air
Here it was wofully visible
There was a listlessness in his gait
Dimmesdale exhibited no symptom of

The Pastor and His Parishioner

than it seems in people’s eyes
openly upon your bosom
good name
thy fame
good name

A Flood of Sunshine

it overflows upon the outward world.

The Child at the Brook-Side

so strikingly that the world might see them!
trace whose child she is
In her was visible
living hieroglyphic
all written in this symbol,—all plainly manifest
assuming a singular air of authority

The Minister in a Maze

wear one face [to himself, and another] to the multitude
outward journey
no external change
in spite of this outward show

The New England Holiday

corresponding development in the countenance and mien
effluence, or inevitable development and outward manifestation of her character
But here in the sunny day, and among all the people, he knows us not; nor must we know him!
outward state and majesty
the most showy and gallant figure, so far as apparel went,
a sword-cut on his forehead, which, by the arrangement of his hair, he seemed anxious rather to display than hide.
such a galliard air
Chillingworth, he calls himself—
with a mien of calmness, though in the utmost consternation.

The Procession

ancient and honorable fame
Even in outward demeanour they showed
gait and air
before all the people
in public
as the people uphold him to be, and as—I must needs say—he really looks!
Thou wearest it openly

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

reputation
renowned
fame

Conclusion

from the inmost heart outwardly
in the appearance and demeanour of the old man known as Roger Chillingworth

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Life / Death

Death

The Prison-Door

cemetery
burial-ground
grave
nucleus of all the congregated sepulchres in the old church-yard of King’s Chapel

The Market-Place

execution
die upon the gallows
punishment of death itself
execution
ought to die
death
death

The Recognition

death
engraved upon her tombstone
death

The Interview

immediately become as still as death
death
death
die
dead

Hester at Her Needle

end
annihilate
grave
funerals
dead
morbid
coffins of the dead
morbid
mourn
poison
mortal
fellow-mortal

Pearl

morbid
like the stroke of sudden death
death

The Governor’s Hall

morbid
pestilence
death
departed worthies

The Elf-Child and the Minister

death
I will die first
executed

The Leech

die
remove him
extinguished
die
shortly end with me
buried in my grave
eternal state
dissolved
grave-yard
Sir Thomas Overbury’s murder

The Leech and His Patient

like a sexton delving into a grave
buried on the dead man’s bosom
mortality
morbidness
that looked towards the grave-yard
grave-yard
… on a grave
no tombstone, no other memorial of the dead man
buried
buried
buried
death-bed
dead corpse buried
bury
adjacent burial-ground
from one grave to another
broad, flat, armorial tombstone of a departed worthy
tomb
dead
bygone and buried generation
death
kill
at the close of

The Interior of a Heart

death
poison of one morbid spot was infecting his heart’s entire substance
deadliest
old bones should be buried close to their young pastor’s holy grave
grave
buried
dying friends
deadly purport
dead friends
steals the pith and substance out of whatever realities
ceases to exist

The Minister’s Vigil

poisonous
grave
dying man
death-chamber
departed
defunct
death-bed
half frozen to death
death-bed
death-bed
half-torpid
Pestilence
morbidly
with an effect as if the street and all things else were at once annihilated.
He going home to a better world
throughout the long hereafter

Another View of Hester

destroyed
morbid energy
pestilence stalked
calamity
sufferer’s hard extremity
die
deadlier
suffered death
evaporated [?]
deadlier venom

Hester and the Physician

die daily a living death
thence, peradventure, to the gallows!
“Better he had died at once!”
“Better had he died at once!
as a foretaste of what awaits him beyond the grave
perpetual poison

Hester and Pearl

poisonous
deadly
morbid
tomb
neither dead
tomb-like

A Forest Walk

drowned
lie there passive for evermore. The leaves might bestrew him, and the soil gradually accumulate and form a little hillock over his frame, no matter whether there were life in it or no. Death was too definite an object to be wished for, or avoided.

The Pastor and His Parishioner

in the world beyond the grave
death
no substance
dead
all death!”
death itself
she would gladly have lain down on the forest-leaves, and died there
death threaten
buried
she had not died
deadly
far worse than death
Shall I lie down again on these withered leaves, where I cast myself when thou didst tell me what he was? Must I sink down there, and die at once?”
die
death
come to an end
died away
I must die here

A Flood of Sunshine

morbid
peril of death
execution
dead
deathlike

The Child at the Brook-Side

deadly
deadly
withering
come to a close

The Minister in a Maze

terminating his professional career
widowed
dead husband and children, and her dead friends of long ago, as a burial-ground is full of storied grave-stones.
drop down dead
intensely poisonous infusion
hanged for Sir Thomas Overbury’s murder
grave
deadly
infectious poison
burial-ground
grave
find their pastor gone
“Yea, to another world,”

The New England Holiday

like the frozen calmness of a dead woman’s features
Hester was actually dead, in respect to any claim of sympathy, and had departed out of the world
“Look your last on
last
perilled all their necks in a modern court of justice.

The Procession

morbid
as if it carried the plague
burial-robe
At the final hour

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

Now that there was an end
as he drew towards the close
the natural regret of one soon to pass away
he could not depart heavenward without a sigh
untimely death upon him, and would soon leave them
at the close of
would complete the ceremonies
died into
The energy—[…]—was withdrawn
extinguished
hardly the face of a man alive, with such a deathlike hue
perish
closing scene
so we may both die, and little Pearl die with us!”
I am a dying man.
bar of Eternal Justice.
Now, at the death-hour
dying eyes
as of a spirit sinking into deep repose
“farewell!”
eternity
bright dying eyes
to die this death
That final word came forth with the minister’s expiring breath.
departed spirit

Conclusion

dying words
conscious that he was dying
he had made the manner of his death a parable
Mr. Dimmesdale’s death
; insomuch that he positively withered up, shrivelled away, and almost vanished from mortal sight, like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun.
At old Roger Chillingworth’s decease (which took place within the year),
minister had died
maiden grave
such an end
a new grave was delved, near an old and sunken one, in that burial-ground beside which King’s Chapel has since been built. It was near that old and sunken grave, yet with a space between, as if the dust of the two sleepers had no right to mingle. Yet one tombstone served for both. All around, there were monuments carved with armorial bearings; and on this simple slab of slate

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Dreams

The Interview

dream
dream
nightmares and hideous dreams

The Interior of a Heart

dreamed

The Minister’s Vigil

shadow of a dream
dream
nightmare
after her night ride
dreams
dream
ugly dream

Another View of Hester

dream

Hester and the Physician

dreams

Hester and Pearl

dreamy

The Pastor and His Parishioner

realize a dream

The Child at the Brook-Side

dreamed of

The Minister in a Maze

and dreamed!
either that he had seen it only in a dream hitherto, or that he was merely dreaming about it now.
Tempted by a dream

The Procession

vividly as she had dreamed it

The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter

than what we dreamed of

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Drink

The Interview

drank
Drink it!
quaff it
Drink
take off this draught
drained the cup

The Governor’s Hall

large pewter tankard
frothy remnant of a recent draught of ale.

The Elf-Child and the Minister

imbibes

The New England Holiday

quaff a last, long, breathless draught of the cup of wormwood and aloes, with which nearly all her years of womanhood had been perpetually flavored? The wine of life, henceforth to be presented to her lips, must be indeed rich, delicious, and exhilarating, in its chased and golden beaker; or else leave an inevitable and weary languor, after the lees of bitterness wherewith she had been drugged, as with a cordial of intensest potency.
quaffing, at their pleasure, draughts of wine or aqua-vitæ from pocket-flasks

The Procession

It might be the exhilaration of that potent cordial, which is distilled only in the furnace-glow of earnest and long-continued thought.

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