HOURS in Classic Quotes

1  A day was twenty-four hours long but seemed longer.

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

2  They were sullen-looking, sleepy-eyed men who seemed unused to late hours.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

3  "Your father's tired," said Aunt Alexandra, her first words in hours, it seemed.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

4  She wants me to come every afternoon after school and Saturdays and read to her out loud for two hours.

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

5  The air was so cold and clear we heard the courthouse clock clank, rattle and strain before it struck the hour.

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

6  Today she had antagonized Jem for nearly two hours with no intention of having a fit, and I felt hopelessly trapped.

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

7  After nine hours of listening to the eccentricities of Old Sarum's inhabitants, Judge Taylor threw the case out of court.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

8  "It's gettin on to four," he said, which was intriguing, as the courthouse clock must have struck the hour at least twice.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

9  He had been under the bed for two hours, he thought; he had heard us in the diningroom, and the clink of forks on plates nearly drove him crazy.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

10  The Daughters' Staircase was in the ground-floor bedroom of their parents, so Simon always knew the hours of his daughters' nocturnal comings and goings.

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

11  They had spent two afternoons at the creek, they said they were going in naked and I couldn't come, so I divided the lonely hours between Calpurnia and Miss Maudie.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24

12  Bit by bit the dead cigar would disappear, to reappear some hours later as a flat slick mess, its essence extracted and mingling with Judge Taylor's digestive juices.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

13  When the new wore off his grandfather's watch, and carrying it became a day's burdensome task, Jem no longer felt the necessity of ascertaining the hour every five minutes.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7

14  Why they objected to Miss Maudie's yard was a mystery, heightened in my mind because for someone who spent all the daylight hours outdoors, Miss Maudie's command of Scripture was formidable.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

15  We were surprised to find that we had been gone nearly an hour, and were equally surprised to find the courtroom exactly as we had left it, with minor changes: the jury box was empty, the defendant was gone; Judge Taylor had been gone, but he reappeared as we were seating ourselves.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 21

16  Hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Jem had given me, learning their games, following Jem's red jacket through wriggling circles of blind man's buff, secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

17  When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at recess and noon.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2