COURT in Classic Quotes

1  That institution, gentlemen, is a court.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20

2  Judge Taylor permitted the court to laugh.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

3  He was in court one time and they asked him his name.

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

4  Mayella looked around, down at the court reporter, up at the judge.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

5  I guess Mr. Heck Tate had reserved the county toilet for court officials.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

6  In possession of his court once more, Judge Taylor leaned back in his chair.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

7  It stopped, flipped back the shorthand pad, and the court reporter said, "'Mr. Finch."

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

8  We've done business in this court for years and years, and Mr. Finch is always courteous to everybody.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

9  Only once was Judge Taylor ever seen at a dead standstill in open court, and the Cunninghams stopped him.

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

10  Just inside the railing that divided the spectators from the court, the witnesses sat on cowhide-bottomed chairs.

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

11  So serene was Judge Taylor's court, that he had few occasions to use his gavel, but he hammered fully five minutes.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

12  After nine hours of listening to the eccentricities of Old Sarum's inhabitants, Judge Taylor threw the case out of court.

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

13  Normally, they were the court's only spectators, and today they seemed resentful of the interruption of their comfortable routine.

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

14  He was from Abbottsville; we saw him only when court convened, and that rarely, for court was of no special interest to Jem and me.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

15  But Atticus had once told us that in Judge Taylor's court any lawyer who was a strict constructionist on evidence usually wound up receiving strict instructions from the bench.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

16  Judge Taylor's cigar was a brown speck in the center of his mouth; Mr. Gilmer was writing on one of the yellow pads on his table, trying to outdo the court reporter, whose hand was jerking rapidly.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20

17  I've heard that lawyers' children, on seeing their parents in court in the heat of argument, get the wrong idea: they think opposing counsel to be the personal enemies of their parents, they suffer agonies, and are surprised to see them often go out arm-in-arm with their tormenters during the first recess.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17