BEHIND in Classic Quotes

1  I heard him behind me, chasing and shouting.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

2  A gigantic moon was rising behind Miss Maudie's pecan trees.

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

3  He trudged along, dragging the pole behind him on the sidewalk.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

4  He came up the back steps, latched the door behind him, and sat on his cot.

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

5  Reverend Sykes was standing behind the pulpit staring the congregation to silence.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

6  There was a story behind all this, but I had no desire to extract it from her then.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

7  As the door swung shut behind us I saw Jessie walking quickly toward Mrs. Dubose's bed.

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

8  Calpurnia opened the screen door, latched it behind her, then unlatched it and held onto the hook.

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

9  Calpurnia's hands went to our shoulders and we stopped and looked around: standing in the path behind us was a tall Negro woman.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

10  Jem ran to the back yard, produced the garden hoe and began digging quickly behind the woodpile, placing any worms he found to one side.

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

11  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

12  Jem and Walter returned to school ahead of me: staying behind to advise Atticus of Calpurnia's iniquities was worth a solitary sprint past the Radley Place.

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

13  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

14  The tribe of which Burris Ewell and his brethren consisted had lived on the same plot of earth behind the Maycomb dump, and had thrived on county welfare money for three generations.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

15  His sermon was a forthright denunciation of sin, an austere declaration of the motto on the wall behind him: he warned his flock against the evils of heady brews, gambling, and strange women.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

16  Often as not, Miss Maudie and I would sit silently on her porch, watching the sky go from yellow to pink as the sun went down, watching flights of martins sweep low over the neighborhood and disappear behind the schoolhouse rooftops.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

17  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