CLOCK in Classic Quotes

1  The alarm clock's set for five-thirty.

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

2  The alarm clock went off and scared us stiff.

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

3  "I've been out here since six o'clock," she said.

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

4  Her whole mind and body were concentrated on that alarm clock.

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

5  The alarm clock would ring, Jessie would shoo us out, and the rest of the day was ours.

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

6  The air was so cold and clear we heard the courthouse clock clank, rattle and strain before it struck the hour.

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

7  We did not run away, Jessie sent us: before the clock wound down she was in the room pushing Jem and me out of it.

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

8  He had taken thirteen dollars from his mother's purse, caught the nine o'clock from Meridian and got off at Maycomb Junction.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

9  Besides making change in the collection plate every Sunday, Mr. Avery sat on the porch every night until nine o'clock and sneezed.

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

10  We saw him off on the five o'clock bus and I was miserable without him until it occurred to me that I would be starting to school in a week.

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

11  Ladies bathed before noon, after their three-o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum.

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

12  The only thing good about the second grade was that this year I had to stay as late as Jem, and we usually walked home together at three o'clock.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7

13  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

14  There was a marble-topped washstand by her bed; on it were a glass with a teaspoon in it, a red ear syringe, a box of absorbent cotton, and a steel alarm clock standing on three tiny legs.

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

15  As the year passed, released from school thirty minutes before Jem, who had to stay until three o'clock, I ran by the Radley Place as fast as I could, not stopping until I reached the safety of our front porch.

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

16  She was a widow, a chameleon lady who worked in her flower beds in an old straw hat and men's coveralls, but after her five o'clock bath she would appear on the porch and reign over the street in magisterial beauty.

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

17  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