COURTS in Classic Quotes

1  Judge Taylor permitted the court to laugh.

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

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

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

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

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

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

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

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

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

6  In our courts, when it's a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always wins.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23

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

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

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

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

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

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

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

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

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

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

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

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

13  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.

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

14  Our courts have their faults, as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal.

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20

15  Then Mr. Underwood's meaning became clear: Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in the secret courts of men's hearts Atticus had no case.

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 25

16  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.

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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

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