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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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