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- adjective Alternative form of
Hawthornean .
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Examples
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I found a complete set of Hawthorne and straightway became a moody and sombre Puritan ... and I wrote in Hawthornian prose, quaint essays and stories.
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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I found a complete set of Hawthorne and straightway became a moody and sombre Puritan ... and I wrote in Hawthornian prose, quaint essays and stories.
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
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Take here the cunning sentences on _Selfishness and Egotism_, very Hawthornian yet quite original:
Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial 1871
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That first day of work I had anticipated being greeted by Hawthornian witches, a coven of depraved syphilitic monsters chanting, You’ll be hoist on your own petard.
Fired! Written 2006
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The affair gets revealed and Lurie, refusing to publicly admit he’s sorry for the affair in several scenes that resemble an Arthur Miller witch trial or Hawthornian scarlett-lettering resigns his post and leaves in disgrace; he travels to his daughter Lucy’s farm.
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That first day of work I had anticipated being greeted by Hawthornian witches, a coven of depraved syphilitic monsters chanting, You’ll be hoist on your own petard.
Fired! Written 2006
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That first day of work I had anticipated being greeted by Hawthornian witches, a coven of depraved syphilitic monsters chanting, You’ll be hoist on your own petard.
Fired! Written 2006
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That first day of work I had anticipated being greeted by Hawthornian witches, a coven of depraved syphilitic monsters chanting, You’ll be hoist on your own petard.
Fired! Written 2006
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The affair gets revealed and Lurie, refusing to publicly admit he’s sorry for the affair in several scenes that resemble an Arthur Miller witch trial or Hawthornian scarlett-lettering resigns his post and leaves in disgrace; he travels to his daughter Lucy’s farm.
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The affair gets revealed and Lurie, refusing to publicly admit he’s sorry for the affair in several scenes that resemble an Arthur Miller witch trial or Hawthornian scarlett-lettering resigns his post and leaves in disgrace; he travels to his daughter Lucy’s farm.
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