RADLEY in Classic Quotes

1  The Radley Place fascinated Dill.

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

2  The Radley house had no screen doors.

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

3  The Radley Place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house.

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

4  A baseball hit into the Radley yard was a lost ball and no questions asked.

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

5  Nobody in Maycomb had nerve enough to tell Mr. Radley that his boy was in with the wrong crowd.

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

6  He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

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

7  But to climb the Radley front steps and call, "He-y," of a Sunday afternoon was something their neighbors never did.

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

8  A Negro would not pass the Radley Place at night, he would cut across to the sidewalk opposite and whistle as he walked.

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

9  But by the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions, and it was then that Dill gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

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

10  The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end; Mrs. Dubose was plain hell.

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

11  The shutters and doors of the Radley house were closed on Sundays, another thing alien to Maycomb's ways: closed doors meant illness and cold weather only.

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

12  In spite of our warnings and explanations it drew him as the moon draws water, but drew him no nearer than the light-pole on the corner, a safe distance from the Radley gate.

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

13  Mr. Radley walked to town at eleven-thirty every morning and came back promptly at twelve, sometimes carrying a brown paper bag that the neighborhood assumed contained the family groceries.

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

14  The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot; from the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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15  They did not go to church, Maycomb's principal recreation, but worshiped at home; Mrs. Radley seldom if ever crossed the street for a mid-morning coffee break with her neighbors, and certainly never joined a missionary circle.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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16  According to neighborhood legend, when the younger Radley boy was in his teens he became acquainted with some of the Cunninghams from Old Sarum, an enormous and confusing tribe domiciled in the northern part of the county, and they formed the nearest thing to a gang ever seen in Maycomb.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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17  Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddy, people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.

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