SOUND in Classic Quotes

1  I sounded out Calpurnia on the subject.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

2  When they spoke, their voices sounded casually important.

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

3  Mayella sounded like a Mr. Jingle in a book I had been reading.

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

4  Soft taffeta-like sounds and muffled scurrying sounds filled me with helpless dread.

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

5  From somewhere near by came scuffling, kicking sounds, sounds of shoes and flesh scraping dirt and roots.

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

6  Her voice soared over the clink of coffee cups and the soft bovine sounds of the ladies munching their dainties.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24

7  From the kitchen, I heard Mrs. Grace Merriweather giving a report in the livingroom on the squalid lives of the Mrunas, it sounded like to me.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24

8  The alarm clock had ceased sounding, but Mrs. Dubose would release us with, "That'll do," so late in the afternoon Atticus would be home reading the paper when we returned.

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

9  It suddenly came to me that each day we had been staying a little longer at Mrs. Dubose's, that the alarm clock went off a few minutes later every day, and that she was well into one of her fits by the time it sounded.

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