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1  Exactly fourteen minutes past five.

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

2  A wagonload of ladies rattled past us.

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

3  But Atticus stayed away until long past my bedtime.

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

4  School started, and so did our daily trips past the Radley Place.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 26

5  They squeezed past and Jem called, "Scout, come on, there ain't a seat left."

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

6  They turned off the highway, rode slowly by the dump and past the Ewell residence, down the narrow lane to the Negro cabins.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 25

7  Jem was not one to dwell on past defeats: it seemed the only message he got from Atticus was insight into the art of cross examination.

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

8  At last the sawhorses were taken away, and we stood watching from the front porch when Mr. Radley made his final journey past our house.

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

9  Jem threw open the gate and sped to the side of the house, slapped it with his palm and ran back past us, not waiting to see if his foray was successful.

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

10  Jem and Walter returned to school ahead of me: staying behind to advise Atticus of Calpurnia's iniquities was worth a solitary sprint past the Radley Place.

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

11  I think some money changed hands in this transaction, for as we trotted around the corner past the Radley Place I heard an unfamiliar jingle in Jem's pockets.

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

12  When it bonged eleven times I was past feeling: tired from fighting sleep, I allowed myself a short nap against Reverend Sykes's comfortable arm and shoulder.

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

13  We had long ago given up the idea of walking past her house on the opposite side of the street; that only made her raise her voice and let the whole neighborhood in on it.

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

14  Jem and I detected squirrel cooking, but it took an old countryman like Atticus to identify possum and rabbit, aromas that vanished when we rode back past the Ewell residence.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

15  It was long past my bedtime and I was growing quite tired; it seemed that Atticus and Mr. Underwood would talk for the rest of the night, Mr. Underwood out the window and Atticus up at him.

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

16  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

17  When we were small, Jem and I confined our activities to the southern neighborhood, but when I was well into the second grade at school and tormenting Boo Radley became passe, the business section of Maycomb drew us frequently up the street past the real property of Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose.

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