Twice-told Tales, Volume 1Houghton, Mifflin, 1879 |
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Annie appeared awful beheld beneath black veil bosom breath bright Carbuncle Catharine child church cloud countenance cried Crystal Hills dance dark David Swan dead death discase Dominicus Pike door Dorothy dream earth Elinor eyes face faint fancy father feeling fountain friends gaze gentle gentleman girl glance gloom grave gray hand hath head heart heaven Heidegger HEIDEGGER'S EXPERIMENT Higginbotham hill Hooper Ilbrahim Kimballton lady light look Maypole Medbourne melancholy Merry Mount mind MINISTER'S BLACK VEIL mirth moral morning mystery NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE ness never night painter Parker's Falls passed Pearson pedler perhaps picture portraits prayer Puritan Quaker replied rose round scene seemed shade shadow Sir Edmund Andros smile sorrow soul spirit steeple stood strange street sunshine thee thou thought Town Pump turned TWICE-TOLD TWICE-TOLD TALES visage voice Wakefield wander whispered whole widow wife wild woman young youth
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Page 154 - I cry aloud to all and sundry in my plainest accents, and at the very tiptop of my voice — 'Here it is, gentlemen! Here is the good liquor!
Page 60 - While his auditors shrank from one another, in mutual affright, Father Hooper fell back upon his pillow, a veiled corpse, with a faint smile lingering on the lips. Still veiled, they laid him in his coffin, and a veiled corpse they bore him to the grave. The grass of many years has sprung up and withered on that grave, the burial stone is moss-grown, and good Mr. Hooper's face is dust; but awful is still the thought that it mouldered beneath the Black Veil!
Page 156 - I have been great strangers hitherto; nor, to confess the truth, will my nose be anxious for a closer intimacy till the fumes of your breath be a little less potent. Mercy on you, man ! the water absolutely hisses down your red-hot gullet, and is converted quite to steam in the miniature tophet which you mistake for a stomach.
Page 152 - Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another, and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever. Like Wakefield, he may become, as it were, the Outcast of the Universe.
Page 158 - Neither is it worth while to lay much stress on my claims to a medical diploma, as the physician whose simple rule of practice is preferable to all the nauseous lore which has found men sick, or left them so, since the days of Hippocrates.
Page 254 - Time whose power had never been disputed, save by this fortunate company. Even while quaffing the third draught of the Fountain of Youth they were almost awed by the expression of his mysterious visage. But, the next moment, the exhilarating gush of young life shot through their veins. They were now in the happy prime of youth. Age, with its miserable train of cares, and sorrows, and diseases, was remembered only as the trouble of a dream, from which they had joyously awoke. The fresh gloss of the...
Page 156 - Higginson here wet his palm, and laid it on the brow of the first town-born child. For many years it was the watering-place, and, as it were, the washbowl of the vicinity, — whither all decent folks resorted, to purify their visages and gaze at them afterwards— at least the pretty maidens did — in the mirror which it made.
Page 22 - Five years later, in the twilight of an April morning, he stood on the green, beside the meeting-house, at Lexington, where now the obelisk of granite, with a slab of slate inlaid, commemorates the first fallen of the Revolution.
Page 22 - ... at the venerable grandeur of his aspect, the old man had faded from their eyes, melting slowly into the hues of twilight, till, where he stood, there was an empty space. But all agreed that the hoary shape was gone.
Page 62 - ... youth uprose the head and branching antlers of a stag ; a second, human in all other points, had the grim visage of a wolf; a third, still with the trunk and limbs of a mortal man, showed the beard and horns of a venerable he-goat. There was the likeness of a bear erect, brute in all but his hind legs, which were adorned with pink silk stockings.