Young Goodman Brown — Vocabulary
Nathanial Hawthorne
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these grave, reputable, and pious people5 more

his revered pastor3 more

On the Sabbath day, when the congregation were singing...2 more

But the only thing about him that could be fixed upon as remarkable was his staff, which bore the likeness of a great black snake, so curiously wrought that it might almost be seen to twist and wriggle itself like a living serpent.2 more

The next morning young Goodman Brown came slowly into the street of Salem village, staring around him like a bewildered man.1 more

The moment his fingers touched them they became strangely withered and dried up as with a week's sunshine.1 more

The four blazing pines threw up a loftier flame, and obscurely discovered shapes and visages of horror on the smoke wreaths above the impious assembly.†1 more

Let us walk on, nevertheless, reasoning as we go; and if I convince thee not thou shalt turn back.†

The fiend in his own shape is less hideous than when he rages in the breast of man.†1 more

Ye deemed them holier than yourselves, and shrank from your own sin, contrasting it with their lives of righteousness and prayerful aspirations heavenward.†1 more

What if a wretched old woman do choose to go to the devil when I thought she was going to heaven: is that any reason why I should quit my dear Faith and go after her?†1 more

Moreover, there is a goodly young woman to be taken into communion.†

The whole forest was peopled with frightful sounds—the creaking of the trees, the howling of wild beasts, and the yell of Indians; while sometimes the wind tolled like a distant church bell, and sometimes gave a broad roar around the traveller, as if all Nature were laughing him to scorn.†

Then came a stronger swell of those familiar tones, heard daily in the sunshine at Salem village, but never until now from a cloud of night There was one voice of a young woman, uttering lamentations, yet with an uncertain sorrow, and entreating for some favor, which, perhaps, it would grieve her to obtain; and all the unseen multitude, both saints and sinners, seemed to encourage her onward.†

Good old Deacon Gookin had arrived, and waited at the skirts of that venerable saint, his revered pastor.1 more

Being a stranger to you, she might ask whom I was consorting with and whither I was going.1 more

And yet, though the elder person was as simply clad as the younger, and as simple in manner too, he had an indescribable air of one who knew the world, and who would not have felt abashed at the governor's dinner table or in King William's court, were it possible that his affairs should call him thither.†1 more

...giving vent to an inspiration of horrid blasphemy, and now shouting forth such laughter as set all the echoes of the forest laughing like demons around him.

They continued to walk onward, while the elder traveller exhorted his companion to make good speed and persevere in the path,

I have scruples touching the matter thou wot'st of.