COTTON in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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1 Jem said Mr. Nathan Radley "bought cotton," too.
2 They wore cotton sunbonnets and dresses with long sleeves.
3 Inside, surrounded by wads of damp cotton, was a white, waxy, perfect camellia.
4 Those unable to sit were strapped papoose-style on their mothers' backs, or resided in extra cotton bags.
5 It was customary for the men in the family to remain on Simon's homestead, Finch's Landing, and make their living from cotton.
6 I felt the starched walls of a pink cotton penitentiary closing in on me, and for the second time in my life I thought of running away.
7 Whoever it was wore thick cotton pants; what I thought were trees rustling was the soft swish of cotton on cotton, wheek, wheek, with every step.
8 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.
9 Farther down stream, beyond the bluff, were traces of an old cotton landing, where Finch Negroes had loaded bales and produce, unloaded blocks of ice, flour and sugar, farm equipment, and feminine apparel.
10 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.
11 Miss Caroline seemed unaware that the ragged, denim-shirted and floursack-skirted first grade, most of whom had chopped cotton and fed hogs from the time they were able to walk, were immune to imaginative literature.
12 He had walked ten or eleven of the fourteen miles to Maycomb, off the highway in the scrub bushes lest the authorities be seeking him, and had ridden the remainder of the way clinging to the backboard of a cotton wagon.
13 It is easy to catch a ride down the highway on a cotton wagon or from a passing motorist, and the short walk to the creek is easy, but the prospect of walking all the way back home at dusk, when the traffic is light, is tiresome, and swimmers are careful not to stay too late.