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brown
symbol of unfruitfulness. [Color Symbolism: Jobes, 357]
See : Barrenness
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Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put his head back, after crossing the threshold, to exchange a parting kiss with his young wife.
Mosses From An Old Manse and other stories by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The little clergyman called Brown thanked him with unquestionable warmth, but still with a queer kind of simplicity.
The Wisdom Of Father Brown by Chesterton, Gilbert K. View in context
John Brown and Peter Goldthwaite had been jointly known to the commercial world between twenty and thirty years before, under the firm of Goldthwaite & Brown; which co-partnership, however, was speedily dissolved by the natural incongruity of its constituent parts.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
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