HOUSES 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  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

9  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