GATE in Classic Quotes

1  Go on, it ain't far inside the gate.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

2  With a push, Atticus started us toward the Radley front gate.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

3  We came to the gate that divided the garden from the back yard.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

4  In front of the Radley gate, Tim Johnson had made up what was left of his mind.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

5  Mr. Nathan Radley was standing inside his gate, a shotgun broken across his arm.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

6  We looked down the street and saw a circle of neighbors at the Radley front gate.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

7  We spat ourselves dry, and Jem opened the gate slowly, lifting it aside and resting it on the fence.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

8  He flung open the gate, danced Dill and me through, and shooed us between two rows of swishing collards.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

9  We left the corner, crossed the side street that ran in front of the Radley house, and stopped at the gate.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

10  He made a few hesitant steps and stopped in front of the Radley gate; then he tried to turn around, but was having difficulty.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

11  Jem looked at me furiously, could not decline, ran down the sidewalk, treaded water at the gate, then dashed in and retrieved the tire.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

12  Our first raid came to pass only because Dill bet Jem The Gray Ghost against two Tom Swifts that Jem wouldn't get any farther than the Radley gate.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

13  Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house, slapped it with his palm and ran back past us, not waiting to see if his foray was successful.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

14  This was enough to make Jem march to the corner, where he stopped and leaned against the light-pole, watching the gate hanging crazily on its homemade hinge.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

15  In spite of our warnings and explanations it drew him as the moon draws water, but drew him no nearer than the light-pole on the corner, a safe distance from the Radley gate.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

16  When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

17  We had just come to her gate when Jem snatched my baton and ran flailing wildly up the steps into Mrs. Dubose's front yard, forgetting everything Atticus had said, forgetting that she packed a pistol under her shawls, forgetting that if Mrs. Dubose missed, her girl Jessie probably wouldn't.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11