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Nature / rigidity
Animal Nature
The Recognition
- faculties of animal life remained entire
The Leech
- Nature’s boon to the untutored savage
The Leech and His Patient
- strong animal nature
A Flood of Sunshine
- The small denizens of the wilderness hardly took pains to move out of her path. A partridge, indeed, with a brood of ten behind her, ran forward threateningly, but soon repented of her fierceness, and clucked to her young ones not to be afraid. A pigeon, alone on a low branch, allowed Pearl to come beneath, and uttered a sound as much of greeting as alarm. A squirrel, from the lofty depths of his domestic tree, chattered either in anger or merriment,—for a squirrel is such a choleric and humorous little personage that it is hard to distinguish between his moods,—so he chattered at the child, and flung down a nut upon her head. It was a last year’s nut, and already gnawed by his sharp tooth. A fox, startled from his sleep by her light footstep on the leaves, looked inquisitively at Pearl, as doubting whether it were better to steal off, or renew his nap on the same spot. A wolf, it is said,—but here the tale has surely lapsed into the improbable,—came up, and smelt of Pearl’s robe, and offered his savage head to be patted by her hand. The truth seems to be, however, that the mother-forest, and these wild things which it nourished, all recognized a kindred wildness in the human child.
The New England Holiday
- animal ferocity
Human Nature
The Market-Place
- impulse
- impulsive and passionate nature
- instinctive device of her spirit
The Recognition
- natural temper
- wronging the very nature of woman
The Interview
- state of nervous excitement
Hester at Her Needle
- ordinary resources of her nature
- wildness of her nature
- in her nature
Pearl
- natural dexterity
- Her nature
- be swayed by her own impulses.
- irregularity [?]
- nature of the child
- instinctively
- first motion
- often the case that a sportive impulse came over her
The Governor’s Hall
- her disposition
The Leech
- nature of Mr. Dimmesdale’s bodily disease
- [intellectual cultivation]
The Interior of a Heart
- by many of his traits of character, naturally belonged
- constitution of his nature
Another View of Hester
- human nature
- spirit
- germ and blossom of womanhood
- very nature of the opposite sex
Hester and the Physician
- his spirit
The Child at the Brook-Side
- natural skill
The Procession
- nature wilder than his own
Nature
The Prison-Door
- grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-peru, and such unsightly vegetation
- black flower of civilized society
- rooted
- wild rose-bush
- Nature
- rose-bush
- wilderness
- gigantic pines and oaks
- flowers
- blossom
The Market-Place
- GRASS-PLOT
- forest
- tuft of green moss
The Recognition
- wild forest-land
The Interview
- medicinal herbs and roots that grew in the forest
- vast and dismal forest
Hester at Her Needle
- dark, inscrutable forest
- roots which she had struck into the soil
- sable cloth and snowy lawn
- forest-land
- forest-covered hills
- clump of scrubby trees
- irrepressibly
- all nature knew of it
- leaves of the trees
Pearl
- lovely and immortal flower
- not clad in rustic weeds
- wild-flower prettiness of a peasant-baby
- The child could not be made amenable to rules
- in disorder; or with an order peculiar to themselves, amidst which the point of variety and arrangement was difficult or impossible to be discovered
- flower
- pine-trees
- ugliest weeds of the garden
- gathering handfuls of wild-flowers, and flinging them
- battery of flowers
The Governor’s Hall
- backed by the sympathies of nature
- grassy
- moss-grown
- wreaths of oaken flowers
- fair garden
- flowers
- woods
- garden
- closely shaven grass
- shrubbery
- ornamental gardening
- Cabbages
- pumpkin vine, rooted
- one of its gigantic products
- great lump of vegetable
- rose-bushes
- apple-trees
- planted
- rose-bushes
- red rose
- garden
- garden-avenue
The Elf-Child and the Minister
- pears and peaches
- purple grapes
- flourish
- garden-wall
- leaves [?]
- Red Rose
- bush of wild roses
- red roses
- rose-bush
- forest
- forest
The Leech
- native herbs and roots
- Nature’s boon to the untutored savage
- gathered herbs, and the blossoms of wild-flowers, and dug up roots and plucked off twigs from the forest-trees
- plants with healing balm
- sea-shore, or in the forest
- wind-anthem among the tree-tops
The Leech and His Patient
- bundle of unsightly plants
- gather those herbs, with such a dark, flabby leaf
- growing on a grave
- ugly weeds
- powers of nature
- black weeds
- gather the prickly burrs from a tall burdock
- burrs, as their nature was, tenaciously adhered
- prickly burrs
- plants
- busy with his plants
- twig
The Interior of a Heart
- whether the grass would ever grow on it
- [did his best to root them out]
- whether the grass would ever grow on it
The Minister’s Vigil
- forest
- twigs of the forest
- early grass springing up
- garden-plots
- spectacle of this nature
- whole expanse of nature
Another View of Hester
- links of flowers
- light and graceful foliage of her character had been withered up
- nature
- roots and herbs to concoct his medicines withal
Hester and the Physician
- shells and tangled sea-weed
- gatherer of herbs
- of its own nature
- plant the germ of evil
- Let the black flower blossom as it may!
- gathering herbs
Hester and Pearl
- He gathered here and there an herb, or grubbed up a root
- tender grass of early spring
- across its cheerful verdure
- what sort of herbs
- shrubs, of species
- every wholesome growth
- dogwood, henbane, and whatever else of vegetable wickedness
- all flourishing
- gatherer of herbs
- birch-bark
- snail-shells
- live horseshoe by the tail, and made prize of several five-fingers, and laid out a jelly-fish
- gather sea-weed, of various kinds
- eel-grass
- as are the richest flavors of unripe fruit.
A Forest Walk
- wooded hills
- primeval forest
- among the trees
- dark wood
- heap of moss; which, at some epoch of the preceding century, had been a gigantic pine, with its roots and trunk in the darksome shade, and its head aloft in the upper atmosphere. It was a little dell where they had seated themselves, with a leaf-strewn bank rising gently on either side
- bed of fallen and drowned leaves
- The trees impending over it had flung down great branches
- forest
- trunks and underbrush
- gray lichens
- giant trees
- old forest
- forest-trees
- branches
- through the trees
- forest
- trees
- staff which he had cut by the way-side.
- forest
- root of the nearest tree
- leaves
The Pastor and His Parishioner
- trees
- foliage
- dim wood
- woods
- heap of moss
- forest-leaves
- leaves
- mossy trunk of the fallen tree
- forest
- boughs were tossing heavily above their heads; while one solemn old tree
- withered leaves
- yellow leaves
- boundless forest
- fallen leaves
- forest-path
A Flood of Sunshine
- untamed forest
- woods
- forest-leaves
- withered leaves
- obscure forest
- each green leaf
- yellow fallen ones
- gray trunks of the solemn trees
- wood’s
- sympathy of Nature—that wild, heathen Nature of the forest, never subjugated by human law, nor illumined by higher truth
- arch of boughs
- forest
- great black forest—stern as it showed itself to those who brought the guilt and troubles of the world into its bosom—became the playmate of the lonely infant
- Sombre as it was, it put on the kindest of its moods to welcome her. It offered her the partridge-berries, the growth of the preceding autumn, but ripening only in the spring, and now red as drops of blood upon the withered leaves.
- leaves
- grassy-margined
- flowers
- Pearl gathered the violets, and anemones, and columbines, and some twigs of the freshest green, which the old trees held down before her eyes.
- antique wood
The Child at the Brook-Side
- simple flowers
- wood
- wild flowers
- mossy tree-trunk
- flowers and wreathed foliage
- forest-gloom
- forest
- flower-girdled
- woods reverberated on all sides
- it seemed as if a hidden multitude were lending her their sympathy and encouragement
- crowned and girdled with flowers
- forest
- The dell was to be left in solitude among its dark, old trees
The Minister in a Maze
- woods
- tree-trunk
- moss
- hardships of a forest life
- woods
- rude natural obstacles
- underbrush
- forest
- forest
- mossy tree-trunk
- lily
- germ of evil that would be sure to blossom darkly soon, and bear black fruit betimes.
- forest
- forest
- forest-dell
- forest
The New England Holiday
- forest settlements
- wormwood and aloes
- butterfly’s wing, or the painted glory from the leaf of a bright flower
- broad and lonesome green
- forest, where only the old trees
- heap of moss
- palm-leaf
The Procession
- dim forest, with its little dell
- mossy tree-trunk
- forest
- dark old trees
- forest
- forest-path
- forest
- no leaf of the wild garlands
- a whole tree of dusky foliage
- amid the twilight of the clustering leaves
- forest
The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter
- forest
- yonder, in the forest
Conclusion
- like an uprooted weed that lies wilting in the sun
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