Hawthorne
[haw-thawrn]
- Nathaniel,1804–64, U.S. novelist and short-story writer.
- a city in SW California, SW of Los Angeles.
- a city in NE New Jersey.
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Contemporary Examples
No one cares whether one of those names is going to be Mrs. Mellark or Mrs. Hawthorne.
Team Peeta or Team Gale: Why the ‘Hunger Games’ Love Triangle Ruins ‘Mockingjay – Part 1’Kevin Fallon
November 28, 2014
It had rained all night and was still drizzling when I headed for the Hawthorne Race Course in suburban Cicero, Illinois.
Sometims the "success" of the earlier project was simply a result of random chance, or what researchers call the Hawthorne Effect.
Two of his favorite short lives are Henry James on Hawthorne and Rebecca West on St. Augustine.
The formulaic HawthoRNe seems to have stumbled across that insight.
Historical Examples
And they said, too, that they were going to find the house where Hawthorne was born.
Was Hawthorne, then, simply an Englishman living in America?
The American MindBliss Perry
You never had the chance, Hawthorne; pray God you never may.
Thinking of it all, I seem to have lived in a legend by Hawthorne.
MemoirsCharles Godfrey Leland
Hawthorne, unluckily, is by no means solitary in his mode of reasoning.
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.)Leslie Stephen
Hawthorne
- Nathaniel. 1804–64, US novelist and short-story writer: his works include the novels The Scarlet Letter (1850) and The House of the Seven Gables (1851) and the children's stories Tanglewood Tales (1853)
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