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  • Chillingworth, dressed in Native American garb, mistakes the rapist for Dimmesdale and murders and scalps him while letting out a cartoonish war whoop.

    My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

  • With her much-older husband Roger Chillingworth (Robert Duvall) ostensibly back in England, Hester purchases an easily aroused mute mulatto slave girl (Lisa Jolifee-Andoh) to leer lustily at her having sex and masturbating.

    My Year of Flops Nathan Rabin 2010

  • Meanwhile, before setting about this work, I will address one remark to Chillingworth and his friends:—Let them consider, that if they can criticize history, the facts of history certainly can retort upon them.

    Newman's miracle and a purple passage 2009

  • Meanwhile, before setting about this work, I will address one remark to Chillingworth and his friends:—Let them consider, that if they can criticize history, the facts of history certainly can retort upon them.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Others may object to the way Hester's husband, Chillingworth, meets his death in the screenplay: he hangs himself after mistakenly killing the wrong man, while disguised as an Indian and hoping to murder Dimmesdale and have it blamed on the Wampanoags.

    Hester Prynncesse 2008

  • Or the surprising moment when nasty Chillingworth (Robert Duvall), Hester's vengeful husband, goes native and scalps the wrong man.

    Hester Prynne's Hot Tub 2008

  • Joe Peel was a crooked city judge and Chillingworth was getting ready to lower the boom on him.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • The rumor was that it was going to be Curtis Chillingworth, a World War II hero and the best legal mind on the bench in south Florida.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • That was just before a character named Joe Peel hired some West Palm low-lifes to take Chillingworth and his wife Marjorie from their beach home in Manalapan out into the Gulf Stream in the middle of the night, drape them in chains, and toss them overboard.

    Again to Carthage Jr. John L. Parker 2007

  • Chillingworth followed, as one intimately connected with the drama of guilt and sorrow in which they had all been actors, and well entitled, therefore to be present at its closing scene.

    The Scarlet Letter 2002

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