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  • 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)
    proctor = oversee to prevent cheating
  • 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)
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  • 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 hear me, please go through the door on the left marked EMPLOYEES ONLY.†  (source)
  • The class proctor outlined the course and told them that only 20 percent of them would remain at graduation.  (source)
    proctor = person who oversees students
  • 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)
  • He interviewed the college authorities, the proctors, the Vice-Chancellor; he induced Mgr.†  (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Only the Elder Brother and his proctors are permitted to speak, and the proctors only for one day of every seven.†  (source)
  • And there's some even goes dancing with the town at the Masonic—but the proctors will get them, you see....Well, here's Lord Sebastian.†  (source)
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  • ABIGAIL, in tears: I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart!  (source)
    Proctor = a name in this novel
  • "Hands out where I can see them," the proctor says.†  (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)
    Proctor and Gamble = a company name
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  • I'm your class proctor for the next two weeks.†  (source)
  • He's got a good job workin' at Proctor and Gamble, where his main function, as far as I can tell, is kissin' up to white people.†  (source)
    Proctor and Gamble = a company name
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Just then the proctor informs you that the time is up.†  (source)
  • "Are you afraid?" asked Colonel Proctor.†  (source)
  • There were scientific works, too, among which were represented men such as Tyndall, Proctor, and Darwin.†  (source)
  • 'Why, yes,' said I. 'She asks me, here, if I think I should like to be a proctor?†  (source)
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