"Oh! there it is again!" and she struck wildly into the air before her face.

"Drive it away! Do drive it away, some one!" Here a young man pulled out his rapier, and began thrusting at the invisible bird in a furious manner.
"Now it comes to me!" cried Sarah Churchill.

And then the other girls also cried out, and began striking into the air before their faces, till there was anew a perfect babel of cries, shrieks and sympathizing voices.
Master Raymond, amid all his indignation at such barefaced and wicked and yet successful imposture, could hardly avoid smiling at the expression of the old seaman's face as he stood on the chair, and fronted all this tempest of absurd and villainous accusation.

At first there had been a deep crimson glow of the hottest wrath upon the old man's cheeks and brow; but now he seemed to have been shocked into a kind of stupor, so unexpected and weighty were the charges against him, and made with such vindictive fierceness; and yet so utterly absurd, while at the same time, so impossible of being refuted.
"He bought the yellow bird from Tituba's mother--her spectre told me so!" cried Abigail Williams.
"What do you say to that, Master Alden ?" said Squire Gedney.

"That is a serious charge." "I never saw any Tituba or her mother," exclaimed the Captain, again growing indignant.
"Who then did you buy the witch's familiar of ?" asked Squire Hathorne.
"I do not know--some old negro wench!" Here the magistrates looked at each other sagely, and nodded their wooden heads.