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sky had been but the effluence of these two mortal hearts, it vanished with their sorrow. Hawthorne.

early youth, was shown in the General's fondness for the sight and fragrance of flowers. Hawthorne.

dge. The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on her small physiognomy. Hawthorne.

are engage. Pope. Taking upon himself the difficult task of engaging him in conversation. Hawthorne.

, when clerks engrossed their stiff and formal chirography on more substantial materials. Hawthorne. Laws that may be engrossed on a finger nail. De Quincey.

umor gained ground, -- and, however absurd, was entertained by some very sensible people. Hawthorne.

voice sometimes became, there was forever in it an essential character of plaintiveness. Hawthorne.

Famous men, -- whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural. Hawthorne.

or spiritlike. Etherealized, moreover, by spiritual communications with the other world. Hawthorne.

g; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.

Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. [R.] Hawthorne.

quisitely wrought. To a sensitive observer there was something exquisitely painful in it. Hawthorne.

deed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament. Hawthorne.

ankly. Even the nature of Mr. Dimmesdale's disease had never fairly been revealed to him. Hawthorne.

er. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

Fantastic designs. Embroidered with fantasies and flourishes of gold thread. Hawthorne.

te place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne.

The state or quality of being flighty. The flightness of her temper. Hawthorne.

To fortell; to presage; to augur. If I forebode aright. Hawthorne.

into angles and rhomboids. W. Irwing. She took off the formal cap that confined her hair. Hawthorne.