The Miracle Worker — Vocabulary
William Gibson
(Auto-generated)

The lights dim on them, having simultaneously risen full on the house; VINEY has already entered the family room, taken a water pitcher, and come out and down to the pump.†p.25.5alternate pages5 more

ANNIE contemplates this for a moment, then coming back takes HELEN'S wrists firmly and swings her off the chair.†p.103.4alternate pages4 more

ANNIE [RESOLUTELY]: Oh, you should have seen me when I left Boston.†p.23.6alternate pages4 more

KATE comprehends it, their first act of verbal communication, and she can hardly utter the word aloud, in wonder, gratitude, and deprivation; it is a moment in which she simultaneously finds and loses a child.†p.111.4alternate pages2 more

KATE on her knees pulls her hands off the cradle, wringing them; HELEN is bewildered.†p.10.5alternate pages3 more

HELEN now has the doll with eyes, and cannot contain herself for joy; she rocks the doll, pats it vigorously, kisses it.†p.10.1alternate pages4 more

ANNIE [WRY]: Well, some have the luck of the Irish, some do not.†p.24.6alternate pages3 more

KELLER acquires the suitcase, and ANNIE gets her hands on it too, though still endeavoring to live up to the general air of propertied manners.†p.26.6alternate pages2 more

ANNIE [INDIGNANTLY]: Why does she get a reward?†p.45.4alternate pages1 more

She is leaning toward ANNIE, in deadly earnest; it commands both ANNIE and KELLER.†p.65.9alternate pages1 more

KELLER [EMBARRASSED]: Oh, Katie, we—had a little talk, Miss Annie feels that if we indulge Helen in these—†p.103.7alternate pages1 more

But KATE is moveless, until VINEY starts to take the baby; KATE looks down at her before relinquishing her.†p.57.7alternate pages1 more

KELLER acquires the suitcase, and ANNIE gets her hands on it too, though still endeavoring to live up to the general air of propertied manners.†p.26.5alternate pages1 more

The second she is free HELEN blunders away, collides violently with a chair, falls, and sits weeping.†p.11.4alternate pages2 more

KATE goes out on the porch after HELEN, while KELLER knocks on ANNIE'S door, then rattles the knob, imperiously.†p.36.7alternate pages2 more

I'm badgered enough here by females without your impudence.†p.8.1alternate pages1 more

KELLER stands, caught, and watches morosely.†p.9.5alternate pages1 more

Time, in the form of a slow tune of distant belfry chimes which approaches in a crescendo and then fades, passes; the light comes up again on a day five years later, on three kneeling children and an old dog outside around the pump.†p.3.9alternate pages1 more

Now the distant belfry chimes commence to toll the hour, also very slowly, almost—it is twelve—interminably; the sense is that of a long time passing.†p.56.2alternate pages1 more

We hear a boy's voice whispering; perhaps we see shadowy intimations of these speakers in the background.†p.17.6alternate pages1 more