DISCOVERED in Classic Quotes

1  I discovered that I had been sitting on the edge of the long bench, and I was somewhat numb.

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

2  I discovered that if I bent my knees I could tuck them under my costume and more or less sit.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

3  There was a smell of stale whiskey and pigpen about, and when I glanced around I discovered that these men were strangers.

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

4  Jem had discovered with angry amazement that nobody had ever bothered to teach Dill how to swim, a skill Jem considered necessary as walking.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24

5  Still in wrist manacles, he wandered two miles out of Meridian where he discovered a small animal show and was immediately engaged to wash the camel.

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

6  But when he noticed us dragging around the neighborhood, not eating, taking little interest in our normal pursuits, Atticus discovered how deeply frightened we were.

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

7  I was proceeding on the dim theory, aside from the innate attractiveness of such words, that if Atticus discovered I had picked them up at school he wouldn't make me go.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

8  I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.

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