AT in Classic Quotes

1  Boo wasn't crazy, he was high-strung at times.

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

2  "Shoot no wonder, then," said Jem, jerking his thumb at me.

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

3  People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows.

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

4  When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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  He remembered her clearly, and sometimes in the middle of a game he would sigh at length, then go off and play by himself behind the car-house.

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

7  His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh.

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

8  As he told us the old tale his blue eyes would lighten and darken; his laugh was sudden and happy; he habitually pulled at a cowlick in the center of his forehead.

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

9  The other boys attended the industrial school and received the best secondary education to be had in the state; one of them eventually worked his way through engineering school at Auburn.

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

10  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

11  Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the Landing: she married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.

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

12  John Hale Finch was ten years younger than my father, and chose to study medicine at a time when cotton was not worth growing; but after getting Uncle Jack started, Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.

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

13  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
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1

14  They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law.

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

15  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

16  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

17  They did little, but enough to be discussed by the town and publicly warned from three pulpits: they hung around the barbershop; they rode the bus to Abbottsville on Sundays and went to the picture show; they attended dances at the county's riverside gambling hell, the Dew-Drop Inn & Fishing Camp; they experimented with stumphole whiskey.

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