Hawthorne

[ haw-thawrn ]

/ ˈhɔˌθɔrn /

noun

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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Examples from the Web for hawthorne

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|DAILY BEAST
It had rained all night and was still drizzling when I headed for the Hawthorne Race Course in suburban Cicero, Illinois.
Chicago’s Running of the Bulls|Hampton Stevens|July 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sometims the "success" of the earlier project was simply a result of random chance, or what researchers call the Hawthorne Effect.
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Two of his favorite short lives are Henry James on Hawthorne and Rebecca West on St. Augustine.
Larry McMurtry on the Villainous Custer and the Myths of the West|Nick Romeo|November 17, 2012|DAILY BEAST

The formulaic HawthoRNe seems to have stumbled across that insight.
'Nurse Jackie' Will Make You Feel Better|Caryn James|June 7, 2009|DAILY BEAST
In place of either of these subjects you may substitute the retelling of another story of Hawthorne's you have read.
Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year|E.C. Hartwell
More than twenty years have passed since Hawthorne's appeal to his associates, but it has not been answered.
Transcendentalism in New England|Octavius Brooks Frothingham
Emerson looked at life in order to penetrate it; Hawthorne, in order to comprehend it, and assimilate it to his own nature.
The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne|Frank Preston Stearns
But it was not Hawthorne's silence that provoked to fiercest expression the safe zeal of certain literary loyalists.
The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 6, June, 1886, Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 6, June, 1886|Various
This story of the carbuncle reminds us of Hawthorne's story on the same subject.
John Greenleaf Whittier|W. Sloane Kennedy

British Dictionary definitions for hawthorne

Hawthorne

/ (ˈhɔːˌθɔːn) /

noun

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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