 There was likewise a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what that initial signified. Sporting with...  Hawthorne's Works: Twice-told tales - Page 235by Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1865 - 446 pages
...whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what...capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress. Let not the reader argue, from any of these evidences of iniquity,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Character - 1866 - 340 pages
...whose doom -it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what...capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything, rather than Adulteress." Here is the germ of the whole pathos and terror of " The Scarlet... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1876 - 280 pages
...the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And cveu her own children knew what that initial signified....thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that <jjrt the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress.... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878 - 602 pages
...likewise a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the what that initial signified. Sporting with her infamy, the lost and desperate creature had embroidered tha fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ; so that the... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 288 pages
...whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what...capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress. Let not the reader argue, from any of these evidences of iniquity,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 346 pages
...whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what...with her infamy, the lost and desperate creature had embroid/red the fatal token in scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needlework ;... | |
 | 1882 - 548 pages
...whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what...capital A might have been thought to mean A.dmirable, or anything rather than Adulteress. Let not the reader argue, from any of these eviI dences of iniquity,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 560 pages
...whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what...capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress. Let not the reader argue, from any of these evidences of iniquity,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1882 - 554 pages
...whose doom it was to wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what...capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress. Let not the reader argue, from any of these evidences of iniquity,... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - Legends - 1888 - 500 pages
...doom it was to wear the letter ' A ' on the breast of her gown, in tho eyes of all the world and her own children. And even her own children knew what...capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable, or anything rather than Adulteress." Mr. Hawthorne tells us that he found the missive from which this... | |
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