The Crucible Act IV Pulled Quotes

penitence

I have confessed myself! Is there no good ???? but it be public? God does not need my name nailed upon the church! God sees my name; God knows how black my sins are! It is enough!

excommunication

In solemn meeting, the congregation rescinded the ???? - this in March 1712. But they did so upon orders of the government. The jury, however, wrote a statement praying forgive-ness of all who had suffered.

gibbet

Let Rebecca stand upon the ???? and send up some righteous prayer, and I fear she'll wake a vengeance on you.

bridegroom

Let you not mistake your duty as I mistook my own. I came into this village like a ???? to his beloved, bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up.

beguile

Now hear me, and ???? yourselves no more. I will not receive a single plea for pardon or postponement.

belie

Why, it is all simple. I come to do the Devil's work. I come to counsel Christians they should ??? themselves. [His sarcasm collapses.] There is blood on my head! Can you not see the blood on my head!!

spite

???? only keeps me silent. It is hard to give a lie to dogs.

sibilance

A sound - the ???? of dragging feet on stone. They turn. A pause. Herrick enters with John Proctor.

cleave

Beware, Goody Proctor - ???? to no faith when faith brings blood.

conciliatory

Danforth, ????: You misunderstand, sir; I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just.

adamant

Danforth, to Herrick: Is he yet ????? Has he struck at you again?

utmost

Danforth: I shall do my ????. Which of them do you have hope for?

faltering

Excellency, if you postpone a week and publish to the town that you are striving for their confessions, that speak mercy on your part, not ????.

disputation

Goody Proctor, you are not summoned here for ????. Be there no wifely tenderness within you? He will die with the sunrise. Your husband.

gaunt

He is ????, frightened, and sweating in his greatcoat.

embodiment

He reaches out his hand as though toward an ???? not quite real, and as he touches her, a strange soft sound, half laughter, half amazement, comes from his throat.

indictment

He were not hanged. He would not answer aye or nay to his ????; for if he denied the charge they'd hang him surely, and auction out his property.

agape

Parris: Excellency, I think they be aboard a ship. [Danforth stands ????.] My daughter tells me how she heard them speaking of ships last week, and tonight I discover my - my strongbox is broke into.

floundering

Postponement now speaks a ???? on my part

reprieve

Postponement now speaks a floundering on my part; ???? or pardon must cast doubt upon the guilt of them that...

flailing

Proctor, pauses, then with a ???? of hope: Giles' wife? Have she confessed?

empowered

Proctor, you mistake me. I am not ???? to trade your life for a lie. You have most certainly seen some person with the Devil.