HOUSE in Classic Quotes

1  There were eight more houses to the post office corner.

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

2  Ground, sky and houses melted into a mad palette, my ears throbbed, I was suffocating.

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

3  He had to take it out on somebody and I'd rather it be me than that houseful of children out there.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23

4  Our houses had no cellars; they were built on stone blocks a few feet above the ground, and the entry of reptiles was not unknown but was not commonplace.

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

5  In his old age, our ancestor Simon Finch had built it to please his nagging wife; but with the porches all resemblance to ordinary houses of its era ended.

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

6  Roaring, the house collapsed; fire gushed everywhere, followed by a flurry of blankets from men on top of the adjacent houses, beating out sparks and burning chunks of wood.

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

7  An oppressive odor met us when we crossed the threshold, an odor I had met many times in rain-rotted gray houses where there are coal-oil lamps, water dippers, and unbleached domestic sheets.

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

8  Uncle Jack plunged into another long tale about an old Prime Minister who sat in the House of Commons and blew feathers in the air and tried to keep them there when all about him men were losing their heads.

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

9  Starkly out of place in a town of square-faced stores and steep-roofed houses, the Maycomb jail was a miniature Gothic joke one cell wide and two cells high, complete with tiny battlements and flying buttresses.

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

10  From the other side, however, Greek revival columns clashed with a big nineteenth-century clock tower housing a rusty unreliable instrument, a view indicating a people determined to preserve every physical scrap of the past.

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

11  We squandered our first nickels on the House of Horrors, which scared us not at all; we entered the black seventh-grade room and were led around by the temporary ghoul in residence and were made to touch several objects alleged to be component parts of a human being.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28