 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.  Character and Characteristic Men - Page 214by Edwin Percy Whipple - 1866 - 324 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1876 - 280 pages
...grievously tempted to affix the other end of the rope to some convenient beam or bough. There was likewise a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose...the eyes of all the world and her own children. And cveu her own children knew what that initial signified. Sporting with her infamy, the lost and desperate... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1876 - 592 pages
...grievously tempted to affix the other end of the rope to some convenient beam or bough. There was likewise a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose...breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and ber own children. And even her own children knew what that initial signified. Sporting with her infamy,... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1878 - 602 pages
...grievously tempted to affix the other end of the rope to some convenient beam or bough. There was 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... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1879 - 346 pages
...grievously tempted to affix the other end of the rope to some convenient beam or bough. There was likewise a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose...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 ;... | |
 | Nathaniel Hawthorne - 1883 - 630 pages
...story of " Endicott and The Red Cross," wriiien and published before 1645. Mention is there made of "a young woman with no mean share of beauty, whose...the lost and desperate creature had embroidered the fauil token iu scarlet cloth, with golden thread and the nicest art of needle-work ; so that the capital... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1888 - 500 pages
...Scarlet Letter." In the throng surrounding the culprits just sketched for us, " There was likewise a young woman with no mean share of beauty, whose...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 that initial signified.... | |
 | American Antiquarian Society - 1895 - 494 pages
...that Hawthorne had in " Endicott and the Red Cross," one of the Twicetold Tales, already introduced " a young woman, with no mean share of beauty, whose...in the eyes of all the world and her own children." Among the various forms of 1 " A Study of Hawthorne," by George Parsons Lathrop, Boston, 1876. ignominious... | |
 | Samuel Adams Drake - 1901 - 502 pages
...Scarlet Letter." In the throng surrounding the culprits just sketched for us, " There was likewise a young woman with no mean share of beauty, whose...the fatal token in scarlet cloth with golden thread aiid the nicest art of needlework; so that the capital A might have been thought to mean Admirable,... | |
 | L. Dhaleine - 1905 - 522 pages
...grievously tempted to affix the other end of the rope lo some comenienl beam or bough. There was likewise a young woman with no mean share of beauty, whose doom it was lo wear the letter A on the breast of her gown, in the eyes of all the world and her own children.... | |
 | Bliss Perry - 1908 - 322 pages
...most familiar example, it was in his tale of" Endicott and the Red Cross " that he first described "a young woman with no mean share of beauty, whose doom it was to wear the letter A, embroidered in scarlet cloth, on the breast of her gown." Miss Elizabeth Peabody said promptly, " We... | |
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