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Sentence Examples
| Hester Prynne, convicted of adultery, is taken from the prison and set on the scaffold in the town square for public humiliation. |
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| Taking his cue again from Blake rather than Hegel, Prynne argues that contrariety is not the same thing as opposition. |
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| We ponder other crazy miscasts, from Tom Hanks in The Da Vinci Code to Demi Moore as Hester Prynne. |
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| Prynne was sentenced by the Star Chamber Court to be degraded from the bar. |
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| Coward and Gertrude Lawrence played the lead roles, Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne. |
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| Besides the feuds he had with officers in the Army, Lilburne soon engaged in a quarrel with William Prynne. |
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Examples from Classical Literature
| They said that it meant Abel, so strong was Hester Prynne, with a woman's strength. |
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| Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her place upon the pedestal of shame, with glazed eyes, and an air of weary indifference. |
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| The shadow of the curtain fell on Hester Prynne, and partially concealed her. |
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| That is the hardest word yet Hush now, gossips for the lock is turning in the prison-door, and here comes Mistress Prynne herself. |
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| Hester Prynne, nevertheless, the loving mother of this one child, ran little risk of erring on the side of undue severity. |
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| Hester Prynne did not now occupy precisely the same position in which we beheld her during the earlier periods of her ignominy. |
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| These, after exhausting other modes of amusement, now thronged about Hester Prynne with rude and boorish intrusiveness. |
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| In this matter of Hester Prynne there was neither irritation nor irksomeness. |
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| Histrio-Mastix of Prynne, its unfortunate history, 129 et seq. |
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| But there was a more real life for Hester Prynne, here, in New England, that in that unknown region where Pearl had found a home. |
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| The affair being so satisfactorily concluded, Hester Prynne, with Pearl, departed from the house. |
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| The eyes of the wrinkled scholar glowed so intensely upon her, that Hester Prynne clasped her hand over her heart, dreading lest he should read the secret there at once. |
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| It now writhed in convulsions of pain, and was a forcible type, in its little frame, of the moral agony which Hester Prynne had borne throughout the day. |
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| Wilson were executors, he bequeathed a very considerable amount of property, both here and in England to little Pearl, the daughter of Hester Prynne. |
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| It has already been noticed that directly over the platform on which Hester Prynne stood was a kind of balcony, or open gallery, appended to the meeting-house. |
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| In fine, Hester Prynne resolved to meet her former husband, and do what might be in her power for the rescue of the victim on whom he had so evidently set his gripe. |
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| But the mother did not seem to hear it, at his arrival in the market-place, and some time before she saw him, the stranger had bent his eyes on Hester Prynne. |
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| Thus we seem to see that, as regarded Hester Prynne, the whole seven years of outlaw and ignominy had been little other than a preparation for this very hour. |
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| In this matter, Hester Prynne came to have a part to perform in the world. |
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