COUNTY in Classic Quotes

1  Lives by himself way down near the county line.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

2  Besides, Boo could not live forever on the bounty of the county.

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

3  That's okay, ma'am, you'll get to know all the county folks after a while.

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

4  The Maycomb jail was the most venerable and hideous of the county's buildings.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

5  A light shone in the county toilet, otherwise that side of the courthouse was dark.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

6  Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Finch's Landing, was the county seat of Maycomb County.

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

7  People from the south end of the county passed our house in a leisurely but steady stream.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

8  "They c'n go loose and rape up the countryside for all of 'em who run this county care," was one obscure observation we met head on from a skinny gentleman when he passed us.'

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

9  Atticus did not drive a dump-truck for the county, he was not the sheriff, he did not farm, work in a garage, or do anything that could possibly arouse the admiration of anyone.

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

10  The surveyors, Sinkfield's guests, told their host that he was in the territorial confines of Maycomb County, and showed him the probable spot where the county seat would be built.

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

11  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

12  Business was excellent when Governor William Wyatt Bibb, with a view to promoting the newly created county's domestic tranquility, dispatched a team of surveyors to locate its exact center and there establish its seat of government.

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

13  To all parties present and participating in the life of the county, Aunt Alexandra was one of the last of her kind: she had river-boat, boarding-school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was born in the objective case; she was an incurable gossip.

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

14  According to neighborhood legend, when the younger Radley boy was in his teens he became acquainted with some of the Cunninghams from Old Sarum, an enormous and confusing tribe domiciled in the northern part of the county, and they formed the nearest thing to a gang ever seen in Maycomb.

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

15  As the county went by us, Jem gave Dill the histories and general attitudes of the more prominent figures: Mr. Tensaw Jones voted the straight Prohibition ticket; Miss Emily Davis dipped snuff in private; Mr. Byron Waller could play the violin; Mr. Jake Slade was cutting his third set of teeth.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

16  Instead, Maycomb grew and sprawled out from its hub, Sinkfield's Tavern, because Sinkfield reduced his guests to myopic drunkenness one evening, induced them to bring forward their maps and charts, lop off a little here, add a bit there, and adjust the center of the county to meet his requirements.

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

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