AS in Classic Quotes

1  He couldn't have cared less, so long as he could pass and punt.

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

2  She had been with us ever since Jem was born, and I had felt her tyrannical presence as long as I could remember.

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

3  She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard.

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

4  The old house was the same, droopy and sick, but as we stared down the street we thought we saw an inside shutter move.

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

5  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

6  Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies.

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

7  The doors of the Radley house were closed on weekdays as well as Sundays, and Mr. Radley's boy was not seen again for fifteen years.

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

8  Early one morning as we were beginning our day's play in the back yard, Jem and I heard something next door in Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch.

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

9  Miss Stephanie Crawford said he was so upright he took the word of God as his only law, and we believed her, because Mr. Radley's posture was ramrod straight.

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

10  He walked to the corner of the lot, then back again, studying the simple terrain as if deciding how best to effect an entry, frowning and scratching his head.

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

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  She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn't ready to come.

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

13  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

14  But Dill got him the third day, when he told Jem that folks in Meridian certainly weren't as afraid as the folks in Maycomb, that he'd never seen such scary folks as the ones in Maycomb.

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

15  Mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling, Simon made a pile practicing medicine, but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel.

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

16  In England, Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren, and as Simon called himself a Methodist, he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens.

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

17  Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

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