proctorin a sentence
- I have to proctor an examination on Monday.
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The proctor caught her cheating.
proctor = person watching over students to prevent cheating during a test
- Your Bene Gesserit proctors speak of the Kwisatz Haderach, but they cannot begin to guess the many places I have been.† (source)
- Only the Elder Brother and his proctors are permitted to speak, and the proctors only for one day of every seven.† (source)
- Read minds and make a killing on the market… (Guild Law forbade speculation or gambling by peepers) Read minds and know the answers to all exam questions… (That was a schoolboy, unaware that Esper Proctors were hired by Examination Boards to prevent that kind of peeper-cheating) Read minds and know what people really think of me… Read minds and know which girls are willing… Read minds and be like a King… At the desk, the receptionist wearily broadcast on the widest TP band: If you can…† (source)
- GOM JABBAR; the high-handed enemy; that specific poison needle tipped with meta-cyanide used by Bene Gesserit Proctors in the death-alternative test of human awareness.† (source)
- He interviewed the college authorities, the proctors, the Vice-Chancellor; he induced Mgr.† (source)
- And there's some even goes dancing with the town at the Masonic—but the proctors will get them, you see….† (source)
- It was one of several parties designed to comfort Hardcastle—one of the tasks that had lately fallen to Sebastian and me since, by leaving his car out, we had got him into grave trouble with the proctors.† (source)
- They says: "There's several; but it's the Proctors, mainly."† (source)
- 'But advocates and proctors are not one and the same?' said I, a little puzzled.† (source)
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- She said, don't say nothing about the Proctors, but only about the Apthorps—which 'll be perfectly true, because she is going there to speak about their buying the house; I know it, because she told me so herself."† (source)
- James's tongue unloosed with the port, and he told his cousin his life, his prospects, his debts, his troubles at the little-go, and his rows with the proctors, filling rapidly from the bottles before him, and flying from Port to Madeira with joyous activity.† (source)
- To say the truth, we were getting in no very good odour among the tip-top proctors, and were rapidly sliding down to but a doubtful position.† (source)
- The proctors employ the advocates.† (source)
- We articled clerks, as germs of the patrician order of proctors, were treated with so much consideration, that I was almost my own master at all times.† (source)
- He said it was impossible to conceal the disagreeable fact, that we were chiefly employed by solicitors; but he gave me to understand that they were an inferior race of men, universally looked down upon by all proctors of any pretensions.† (source)
- There were a number of hangers-on and outsiders about the Commons, who, without being proctors themselves, dabbled in common-form business, and got it done by real proctors, who lent their names in consideration of a share in the spoil; — and there were a good many of these too.† (source)
- There was a good deal of competition in the Commons on all points of display, and it turned out some very choice equipages then; though I always have considered, and always shall consider, that in my time the great article of competition there was starch: which I think was worn among the proctors to as great an extent as it is in the nature of man to bear.† (source)
- I observed, however, that Mr. Spenlow's proctorial gown and stiff cravat took Peggotty down a little, and inspired her with a greater reverence for the man who was gradually becoming more and more etherealized in my eyes every day, and about whom a reflected radiance seemed to me to beam when he sat erect in Court among his papers, like a little lighthouse in a sea of stationery.† (source)
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- PROCTOR: To live in, yes.† (source)
- Look, when my dad was seventeen, he was already out of school and workin' fulltime in the mail room of Proctor and Gamble.† (source)
- She proposed that Graves replace her in the biology class, and proctor the exam while she, Beasley, took Michael into a separate room and gave him the test verbally.† (source)
- I'm your proctor.† (source)
- And a proctor.† (source)
- Maybe that's why they sent the old Proctor here — to whip our dear Lady Jessica into line.† (source)
- THE PROCTOR SHUTS the door and takes his seat.† (source)
- "The reputation you forge here will follow you to the teams," the proctor said.† (source)
- Brother Narbert is a proctor of the order, so he is allowed to speak one day of every seven.† (source)
- The day my father died, Stanley Suraweera, now a Proctor at Kegalle, was in Court when a messenger brought him the note: Mervyn has dropped dead.† (source)
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- I was teasing her with this spendthrift suggestion because I knew she was happy and would enjoy being teased a little, though there was always the chance she would accept the idea and take me down to Newark to one of the great first-run movie housesLoew's State or the Branford or Proctor's—that charged twenty-five cents for admission.† (source)
- "Hands out where I can see them," the proctor says.† (source)
- PROCTOR SUPERIOR: a Bene Gesserit Reverend Mother who is also regional director of a B.G. school.† (source)
- Why, this, this— PROCTOR, reaching for the poppet: What's there?† (source)
- I'm your class proctor for the next two weeks.† (source)
- PROCTOR, to Hale: You said she were not charged!† (source)
- The proctor walks in front of her, holds it open, and she walks in, followed by the proctor.† (source)
- Even the opening speech by our new proctor was edged with dire warnings.† (source)
- Then it's back out to the lobby, followed again by the proctor.† (source)
- MARY WARREN: I made a gift for you today, Goody Proctor.† (source)
- Y.T. s mom goes in, followed by the proctor, who closes and locks the door.† (source)
- To your knowledge was Rebecca Nurse ever— PROCTOR: I speak my own sins; I cannot judge another.† (source)
- PROCTOR, impatiently, pointing at the doll in Cheever's hand: This poppet, this poppet.† (source)
- DANFORTH, going to her: Goody Proctor, you are not summoned here for disputation.† (source)
- PROCTOR: You have all witnessed it; what more is needed?† (source)
- ABIGAIL: Goody Proctor always kept poppets.† (source)
- PROCTOR, after glancing at the confession: You have all witnessed It—it is enough.† (source)
- PROCTOR, quickly: You stuck that needle in yourself?† (source)
- PROCTOR, with difficulty: I—I have no witness and cannot prove it, except my word be taken.† (source)
- Proctor is silent, staring at Elizabeth.† (source)
- CHEEVER: Proctor, you dare not touch the warrant.† (source)
- PROCTOR, taken aback: Surely you cannot think so.† (source)
- PROCTOR, in thought: Aye, she did, she did.† (source)
- Tell me, Mr. Proctor, have you given out this story in the village?† (source)
- PROCTOR, as though a secret arrow had pained his heart: Aye.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Then how do you charge me with such a promise?† (source)
- PROCTOR, counting on his fingers: Thou shalt not steal.† (source)
- Proctor, his chest heaving, stares, turns to Elizabeth.† (source)
- PROCTOR: I falter nothing, but I may wonder if my story will be credited in such a court.† (source)
- Proctor! Proctor! Again, a short burst of drums.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Mr. Danforth, what profit this girl to turn herself about?† (source)
- PROCTOR, with solemn warning: You will not judge me more, Elizabeth.† (source)
- CHEEVER: When I spoke with Goody Proctor in that house, she said she never kept no poppets.† (source)
- PROCTOR, to Putnam: You cannot command Mr. Parris.† (source)
- DANFORTH, after thinking on it: Fetch Goody Proctor to me.† (source)
- He keeps watching Proctor, who tries to meet his gaze.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Abby, you'll put it out of mind.† (source)
- Now hear it, Goody Nurse! Say on, Mr. Proctor.† (source)
- He is rapidly calculating this; he turns from her to Proctor.† (source)
- PROCTOR: I will fall like an ocean on that court!† (source)
- HALE: Proctor, if she is innocent, the court— PROCTOR: If she is innocent!† (source)
- Danforth looks at John Proctor, then proceeds to read.† (source)
- PROCTOR—he knows what she means: I thought better of it since.† (source)
- To Hale: I find here a poppet Goody Proctor keeps.† (source)
- Now you— PROCTOR : I'll plead my honesty no more, Elizabeth.† (source)
- PROCTOR, coldly, resentful: Why, we—have no fear of questions, sir.† (source)
- PROCTOR: I—I have once or twice plowed on Sunday.† (source)
- You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!† (source)
- Mr. Proctor, have you seen the Devil in your life?† (source)
- Mr. Proctor, a score of people have already testified they saw this woman with the Devil.† (source)
- To Proctor: Your wife, you say, is an honest woman.† (source)
- MARY WARREN, looking to Proctor: I—cannot faint now, sir.† (source)
- DANFORTH, turning to Abigail: A poppet were discovered in Mr. Proctor's house, stabbed by a needle.† (source)
- PROCTOR: The Deputy Governor will permit it?† (source)
- But Proctor snatches it up, and now a wild terror is rising in him, and a boundless anger.† (source)
- PROCTOR, his anger rising: For a moment, I say.† (source)
- John Proctor— GILES COREY: He don't believe in witches.† (source)
- Danforth's head jerks toward Proctor, shock and horror in his face.† (source)
- All turn to see as he beckons in Mary Warren with Proctor.† (source)
- HALE: Mr. Proctor, your house is not a church; your theology must tell you that.† (source)
- PROCTOR, in horror, muttering in disgust at her: Go to bed.† (source)
- PROCTOR: I have hardly stepped off my farm this sevenmonth.† (source)
- PROCTOR, with the faintest faltering: Why, no, sir.† (source)
- MARY WARREN: But, Mr. Proctor, they will not hang them if they confess.† (source)
- You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!† (source)
- ELIZABETH: I'll go, John— PROCTOR: You will not go!† (source)
- PROCTOR: Your Honor, my wife never kept no poppets.† (source)
- PROCTOR: This farm's a continent when you go foot by foot droppin' seeds in it.† (source)
- PROCTOR, angering: I know I cannot keep it.† (source)
- PROCTOR: I'll pay you, Herrick, I will surely pay you!† (source)
- PROCTOR: I mean it solemnly, Rebecca; I like not the smell of this "authority."† (source)
- PROCTOR, setting her firmly out of his path: I come to see what mischief your uncle's brewin' now.† (source)
- PROCTOR, hesitates, then: Abigail Williams.† (source)
- That tract is in my bounds, it's in my bounds, Mr. Proctor.† (source)
- Mary is keeping her eyes to the ground; Proctor has her elbow as though she were near collapse.† (source)
- Presently the door opens and John Proctor enters, carrying his gun.† (source)
- Proctor, seeing Mary Warren, draws her by the arm to Hale.† (source)
- But Danforth goes on reading, and Proctor is heartened.† (source)
- Cheever goes to Proctor, the confession and a pen in hand.† (source)
- I have forgot Abigail, and— ELIZABETH : And I. PROCTOR: Spare me!† (source)
- Help Mr. Proctor as you were his daughter—you owe me that, and much more.† (source)
- PROCTOR, with a violent undertone: You doubt me yet?† (source)
- DANFORTH, after a slight pause: While you worked for Mr. Proctor, did you see poppets in that house?† (source)
- PROCTOR: No, nor this one either till tonight.† (source)
- Suddenly clasping his hands: God in Heaven, what is John Proctor, what is John Proctor?† (source)
- Proctor was a farmer in his middle thirties.† (source)
- PROCTOR: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth.† (source)
- PROCTOR: I were planting far out to the forest edge.† (source)
- She stands alone, her eyes looking for Proctor.† (source)
- Now, Mr. Proctor, before I decide whether I shall hear you or not, it is my duty to tell you this.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Oh, that's a good sign walkin' in.† (source)
- Then, to Proctor and Giles Corey: Do you men have afflicted children?† (source)
- DANFORTH, to Herrick: What's Proctor's way now?† (source)
- Elizabeth comes to him, glancing at Proctor's back.† (source)
- The common room of Proctor's house, eight days later.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Why, I—I would free my wife, sir.† (source)
- Hale only looks at Proctor, deep in his attempt to define this man.† (source)
- HALE: Proctor, the court is just— PROCTOR: Pontius Pilate!† (source)
- Proctor simply looks at her, unable to grasp it.† (source)
- In conflict, Proctor glances at Francis and Giles.† (source)
- MARY WARREN: I—I believe I did, sir, I— PROCTOR, to Hale: What say you now?† (source)
- PROCTOR, wide-eyed: Oh, it is a black mischief.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Abby, I may think of you softly from time to time.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Now look you— ELIZABETH : I see what I see, John.† (source)
- PROCTOR, pushing his arm away: You'll leave her out of sight and out of mind, Mister.† (source)
- PROCTOR, laughing bitterly: Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer!† (source)
- PROCTOR, to Francis: Rebecca's in the jail!† (source)
- Now let neither of you turn to face Goody Proctor.† (source)
- Proctor looks at her, but she cannot speak.† (source)
- ELIZABETH: No, no, it's only that I heard no horse— HALE: You are Goodwife Proctor.† (source)
- Since Proctor's entrance, Abigail has stood as though on tiptoe, absorbing his presence, wide-eyed.† (source)
- She has an arrow in you yet, John Proctor, and you know it well!† (source)
- DANFORTH, his eyes narrow on Proctor: Did you ever see Martha Corey with the Devil?† (source)
- MARY WARREN: I— PROCTOR, sensing her weakening: Mary, God damns all liars!† (source)
- PROCTOR, suddenly snatching the warrant out of Cheever's hands: Out with you.† (source)
- PROCTOR: She told me the day you came, sir.† (source)
- To Proctor: When the children wake, speak nothing of witchcraft—it will frighten them.† (source)
- PROCTOR, simply-a pure question: What would you have me do?† (source)
- PROCTOR, thinking beyond this: Aye, it is, it is surely.† (source)
- DANFORTH, inquiring, incredulous: Mr. Proctor, do you think they go like saints?† (source)
- PROCTOR: Mr. Hale— DANFORTH: Be quiet!† (source)
- PROCTOR, with draining anger—his curiosity is draining it: And what of these proceedings here?† (source)
- ELIZABETH: It is not for me to give, John, I am— PROCTOR : I'd have you see some honesty in it.† (source)
- PROCTOR, a trifle unsteadily: I—am sure I do, sir.† (source)
- PROCTOR, growing unnerved: What's she doing?† (source)
- PROCTOR: Why? I have no business in Salem.† (source)
- HALE: Goody Proctor, your husband is marked to hang this morning.† (source)
- PROCTOR, with a cold, cold horror at their efficiency: Why must it be written?† (source)
- MARY WARREN, pointing at Proctor: You're the Devil's man!† (source)
- PROCTOR: Mr. Parris discovered them sportin' in the woods.† (source)
- PROCTOR: The road past my house is a pilgrimage to Salem all morning.† (source)
- PROCTOR, handing Danforth a paper: Will you read this first, sir?† (source)
- PROCTOR: There be no love for Satan in this house, Mister.† (source)
- Let you consider, now—To Proctor and the others: And I bid you all do likewise.† (source)
- PROCTOR, angered: How may such a woman murder children?† (source)
- Now believe me, Proctor, how heavy be the law, all its tonnage I do carry on my back tonight.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Then let you come out and call them wrong.† (source)
- PROCTOR: I thought I would, aye—with your permission.† (source)
- PROCTOR: She only pretended to faint, Your Excellency.† (source)
- PROCTOR—he pauses, then with a flailing of hope: Giles' wife?† (source)
- PROCTOR, with a grin: I mean to please you, Elizabeth.† (source)
- PROCTOR: I have a crop to sow and lumber to drag home.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Because it speaks deceit, and I am honest!† (source)
- ELIZABETH: She were—She glances at Proctor for a cue.† (source)
- PROCTOR, still in his shock: Why, Mr. Hale!† (source)
- Proctor goes to Betty as Abigail is trying to pull her hands down, calling "Betty!"† (source)
- PROCTOR, looking off, beginning to sweat: Thou shalt not kill.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Abby, I never give you hope to wait for me.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Aye, that's the truth of it, Rebecca.† (source)
- PROCTOR, to break the silence: Will you drink cider, Mr. Hale?† (source)
- He studies Abigail for a moment, then: Continue, Mr. Proctor.† (source)
- PROCTOR: But—surely you know what a jabberer she is.† (source)
- PROCTOR: Forgive him, sir, for his old age.† (source)
- There is a promise made in any bed— PROCTOR, striving against his anger: What promise!† (source)
- PROCTOR, flushed with resentment but trying to smile: What's your suspicion, Mr. Hale?† (source)
- PROCTOR, to Hale: Now, sir—do you have it?† (source)
- ELIZABETH: Your anger! I only ask you— PROCTOR : Woman, am I so base?† (source)
- Proctor is silent, staring at Elizabeth.† (source)
- Wide-eyed, both Proctor and Elizabeth stand staring.† (source)
- PROCTOR—he pauses an instant, then: You will not go to court again, Mary Warren.† (source)
- PROCTOR: But if she say she is pregnant, then she must be!† (source)
- John Proctor touches her head reassuringly.† (source)
- DANFORTH, pressing Hale impatiently aside: Mr. Proctor, you have been notified, have you not?† (source)
- PROCTOR: I never knew until tonight that the world is gone daft with this nonsense.† (source)
- PROCTOR, turning, appealing to Hale: Mr. Hale!† (source)
- PROCTOR: You're coming to the court with me, Mary.† (source)
- PROCTOR, evading: I—have no knowledge in that line.† (source)
- Abby'll charge lechery on you, Mr. Proctor!† (source)
- It is a weighty name; it will strike the village that Proctor confess.† (source)
- I'd almost forgot how strong you are, John Proctor!† (source)
- GILES, over Proctor's shoulder at Putnam: I'll cut your throat, Putnam, I'll kill you yet!† (source)
- You have made your magic now, for now I do think I see some shred of goodness in John Proctor.† (source)
- PUTNAM : I never heard you worried so on this society, Mr. Proctor.† (source)
- PROCTOR—he has been reached by Hale's words: Leave me, Francis, leave me.† (source)
- Then Elizabeth tries to glance at Proctor.† (source)
- For a moment, Proctor watches from the doorway.† (source)
- PROCTOR, to Hale, of Cheever: Bid him begone.† (source)
- REBECCA, astonished: Why, John! PROCTOR, through his teeth, his face turned from Rebecca: I did.† (source)
- To Proctor: Now, Mister, what other information do you have for us?† (source)
- PROCTOR, forcing him into a chair: Peace, Giles, peace.† (source)
- PROCTOR, his mind wild, breathless: I say—I say—God is dead!† (source)
- PROCTOR: Abby, that's a wild thing to say— ABIGAIL: A wild thing may say wild things.† (source)
- PROCTOR, alarmed, quietly: Can you not pretend it?† (source)
- MARY WARREN: I am sick, I am sick, Mr. Proctor.† (source)
- MARY WARREN, hysterically, pointing at Proctor, fearful of him: My name, he want my name.† (source)
- PROCTOR: I cannot mount the gibbet like a saint.† (source)
- PROCTOR, as Danforth's wide eyes pour on him: Mary, Mary!† (source)
- HALE: Goody Proctor, I have gone this three month like our Lord into the wilderness.† (source)
- MARY WARREN, with a trembling, decayed voice: We must all love each other now, Goody Proctor.† (source)
- Proctor, respected and even feared in Salem, has come to regard himself as a kind of fraud.† (source)
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