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Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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1 Perhaps she had given him a dose of calomel.
2 This order, given by me to Cecil Jacobs, was the beginning of a rather thin time for Jem and me.
3 He had given us a fright, and he could tell it all over the schoolhouse, that was his privilege.
4 We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.
5 I was content to learn that Aunt Alexandra could be pierced sufficiently to feel gratitude for help given.
6 I think maybe he put his gun down when he realized that God had given him an unfair advantage over most living things.
7 Court-appointed defenses were usually given to Maxwell Green, Maycomb's latest addition to the bar, who needed the experience.
8 She was never bored, and given the slightest chance she would exercise her royal prerogative: she would arrange, advise, caution, and warn.
9 We had long ago given up the idea of walking past her house on the opposite side of the street; that only made her raise her voice and let the whole neighborhood in on it.
10 Apparently Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.
11 If she was on the porch when we passed, we would be raked by her wrathful gaze, subjected to ruthless interrogation regarding our behavior, and given a melancholy prediction on what we would amount to when we grew up, which was always nothing.
12 During a controversy of this character, Jeems Cunningham testified that his mother spelled it Cunningham on deeds and things, but she was really a Coningham, she was an uncertain speller, a seldom reader, and was given to looking far away sometimes when she sat on the front gallery in the evening.
13 Hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Jem had given me, learning their games, following Jem's red jacket through wriggling circles of blind man's buff, secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories.