SCHOOLYARD in Classic Quotes

1  We turned off the road and entered the schoolyard.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

2  We began crossing the black schoolyard, straining to see our feet.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

3  He had announced in the schoolyard the day before that Scout Finch's daddy defended niggers.

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

4  Catching Walter Cunningham in the schoolyard gave me some pleasure, but when I was rubbing his nose in the dirt Jem came by and told me to stop.

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

5  Jem held the bottom wire; Dill and I rolled through and were halfway to the shelter of the schoolyard's solitary oak when we sensed that Jem was not with us.

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

6  I knew I had annoyed Miss Caroline, so I let well enough alone and stared out the window until recess when Jem cut me from the covey of first-graders in the schoolyard.

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

7  We ran across the schoolyard, crawled under the fence to Deer's Pasture behind our house, climbed our back fence and were at the back steps before Jem would let us pause to rest.

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

8  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
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

9  Hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Jem had given me, learning their games, following Jem's red jacket through wriggling circles of blind man's buff, secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories.

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

10  When we slowed to a walk at the edge of the schoolyard, Jem was careful to explain that during school hours I was not to bother him, I was not to approach him with requests to enact a chapter of Tarzan and the Ant Men, to embarrass him with references to his private life, or tag along behind him at recess and noon.

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