1984
SCARLET LETTER Chapter 1 -- The Prison Door
4. What was positioned in front of the building?
4. What was positioned in front of the building?
From the text:
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.