the Crucible Vocabulary

Cheever, ineptly reaching toward Elizabeth: No, no, I am forbid to leave her from my sight.

If retaliation is your fear, know this—I should hang ten thousand that dared to rise against…

Danforth, pointing at Abigail, incredulously: This child would murder your wife?

Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part...

we live no longer in the dusky noon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.

the devil is alive in Salem and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points

If Rebecca Nurse be tainted, then nothing's left to stop the whole green world from burning.

Her strangeness throws him off, and her evident pallor and weakness.

..my own household is the center of some obscene practice. Abominations are done in the forest.

He goes to his books, opens one, turns pages, and then reads. All wait, avidly

Is he adamant? Has he struck at you again?

I dare not take a life without proof so immaculate no slightest qualm of conscious may doubt it

This is a court of law, Mister, I'll have no effrontery here!

Danforth, with an almost imperceptible hardness in his voice: Your purpose is somewhat larger

Were she slovenly? Lazy? What disturbance did she cause?

Giles, eighty-three, enters. He is knotted with muscle, canny, inquisitive, and still powerful.

Now, Martha Corey, there is abundant evidence in our hands to show you have given yourself ...

Beware, Goody Proctor__ cleave to no faith when faith brings blood.

She is transfixed—with all the girls, she is whimpering open-mouth agape at the ceiling.

Now hear me and beguile yourselves no more. I will not receive a single plea or pardon...

Mary Warren, with an indignant edge: She tried to kill me many times, Goody Proctor.

I am thirty-three time in court, and always plaintiff, too.

Putnam— is intent upon getting Parris, for whom he has only contempt, to move toward the abyss…

Aye, but the devil is a wily one, you cannot deny it.

Parris, with dwindling conviction now: A precaution only.