I COULD in Classic Quotes

1  I could not see her hedge-clippers.

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

2  By dancing a little, I could feel my feet.

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

3  Because I could never ask you to mind me again.

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

4  I walked beyond Jem and stood where I could see around the curve.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

5  I could not put out my hands to stop, they were wedged between my chest and knees.

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

6  Atticus greeted Walter and began a discussion about crops neither Jem nor I could follow.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

7  Atticus so rarely asked Jem and me to do something for him, I could take being called a coward for him.

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

8  I could only hope that Jem would outrun the tire and me, or that I would be stopped by a bump in the sidewalk.

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

9  She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember.

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

10  In the glare from the streetlight, I could see Dill hatching one: his eyes widened, his fat cherub face grew rounder.

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

11  Through all the head-shaking, quelling of nausea and Jem-yelling, I had heard another sound, so low I could not have heard it from the sidewalk.

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

12  I could not possibly hope to be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn't supposed to be doing things that required pants.

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

13  As the year passed, released from school thirty minutes before Jem, who had to stay until three o'clock, I ran by the Radley Place as fast as I could, not stopping until I reached the safety of our front porch.

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

14  I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

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

15  Dill and Jem were simply going to peep in the window with the loose shutter to see if they could get a look at Boo Radley, and if I didn't want to go with them I could go straight home and keep my fat flopping mouth shut, that was all.

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

16  If I could have explained these things to Miss Caroline, I would have saved myself some inconvenience and Miss Caroline subsequent mortification, but it was beyond my ability to explain things as well as Atticus, so I said, "You're shamin him, Miss Caroline."

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

17  As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home, but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something.

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