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type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service tress, and quinces.

f the matter, it passeth for a full thousand. Fuller. A boldness and rotundity of speech. Hawthorne.

pt; filthy. The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces. Hawthorne.

sakers. Macaulay. The culverins and sakers showing their deadly muzzles over the rampart. Hawthorne.

Around the door are generally to be seen, laughing and gossiping, clusters of old salts. Hawthorne.

schooled herself to hope for little other return than the waywardness of an April breeze. Hawthorne.

have arisen in my mind. Burke. An intellectual cultivation of no moderate depth or scope. Hawthorne.

letter, which forthwith seemed to scoch into Hester's breast, as if it had been red hot. Hawthorne.

Devoted in person, or by one's own will. Hawthorne.

opening to some court's propitious shine. Pope. The distant shine of the celestial city. Hawthorne.

and play Pope. So she drew her mother away skipping, dancing, and frisking fantastically. Hawthorne.

ng in the repose of slumber; sleepy; drowsy. His quiet and almost slumberous countenance. Hawthorne.

eing or of a bird, insect, etc. "That most ethereal of all sounds, the song of crickets." Hawthorne.

oldly often conform with the most pefect quietude to the external regulations of society. Hawthorne.

er out of the ordinary relations with humanity, and inclosing her in a sphere by herself. Hawthorne. Each in his hidden sphere of joy or woe Our hermit spirits dwell. Keble.

hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne.

Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.

ill the passions. Shak. Toil that would, at least, have stilled an unquiet impulse in me. Hawthorne.

deportment. Shak. She may be strange and shy at first, but will soon learn to love thee. Hawthorne.

A stem; a trunk. [Obs.] Seest not this same hawthorn stud Spenser.