Question

Has anyone read the Scarlet Letter? If so i have to write a sentence from "The Custom-House" as examples, construct a sentence of your own of 139 words.

Answer 1

here is the sentence:

In my native town of Salem, at the head of what, half a century ago, in the days of old King Derby, was a bustling wharf,—but which is now burdened with decayed wooden warehouses, and exhibits few or no symptoms of commercial life; except, perhaps, a bark or brig, half-way down its melancholy length, discharging hides; or, nearer at hand, a Nova Scotia schooner, pitching out her cargo of firewood,—at the head, I say, of this dilapidated wharf, which the tide often overflows, and along which, at the base and in the rear of the row of buildings, the track of many languid years is seen in a border of unthrifty grass,—here, with a view from its front windows adown this not very enlivening prospect, and thence across the harbour, stands a spacious edifice of brick.

Answer 2

@DonaldRoyMiller i hope you can help me on this one please. Sorry for sending alot of msgs