JAIL in Classic Quotes

1  You saw the same thing that night in front of the jail.

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

2  You know he didn't even have one down at the jail that night.

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

3  The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county's buildings.

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

4  His first two clients were the last two persons hanged in the Maycomb County jail.

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

5  Shadows became substance as lights revealed solid shapes moving toward the jail door.

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

6  They went around the square, passed the bank building, and stopped in front of the jail.

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

7  Finally Atticus returned, switched off the light above the jail door, and picked up his chair.

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

8  I caught Atticus coming in the door, and he said that they'd moved Tom Robinson to the Maycomb jail.

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

9  The office building was on the northwest corner of the square, and to reach it we had to pass the jail.

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

10  I turned to Atticus, but Atticus had gone to the jail and was leaning against it with his face to the wall.

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

11  The sheriff hadn't the heart to put him in jail alongside Negroes, so Boo was locked in the courthouse basement.

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

12  She still disapproved heartily of my doings, and said I'd probably spend the rest of my life bailing you out of jail.

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

13  Atticus said he had a feeling, nothing more than a suspicion, that they left the jail that night with considerable respect for the Finches.

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

14  He had moved with the same slowness that night in front of the jail, when I thought it took him forever to fold his newspaper and toss it in his chair.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 30

15  I guess if she hadn't been so poor and ignorant, Judge Taylor would have put her under the jail for the contempt she had shown everybody in the courtroom.

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

16  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

17  The jail was Maycomb's only conversation piece: its detractors said it looked like a Victorian privy; its supporters said it gave the town a good solid respectable look, and no stranger would ever suspect that it was full of niggers.

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