HANDED in Classic Quotes

1  Suddenly she put her hands to her head and whooped.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

2  Mr. Tate handed the rifle to Atticus; Jem and I nearly fainted.

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

3  "He looks like Stephanie Crawford with her hands on her hips," I said.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

4  He shook the pen a little, then handed it with the envelope to the witness.

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

5  Atticus pushed his hat to the back of his head and put his hands on his hips.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

6  Naw Cal," Jem whispered, when she handed him a shiny quarter, "we can put ours in.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

7  I could not put out my hands to stop, they were wedged between my chest and knees.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

8  In a group of neighbors, Atticus was standing with his hands in his overcoat pockets.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

9  The silver saucer clattered when he replaced the pitcher, and he quickly put his hands in his lap.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

10  Soon as I can get my hands clean and when Stephanie Crawford's not looking, I'll make him a Lane cake.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

11  His neck was dark gray, the backs of his hands were rusty, and his fingernails were black deep into the quick.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

12  "Everybody who goes home to lunch hold up your hands," said Miss Caroline, breaking into my new grudge against Calpurnia.

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

13  I think some money changed hands in this transaction, for as we trotted around the corner past the Radley Place I heard an unfamiliar jingle in Jem's pockets.

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

14  Uncle Jack shook hands with Jem and swung me high, but not high enough: Uncle Jack was a head shorter than Atticus; the baby of the family, he was younger than Aunt Alexandra.

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

15  Miss Blount, a native Maycombian as yet uninitiated in the mysteries of the Decimal System, appeared at the door hands on hips and announced: "If I hear another sound from this room I'll burn up everybody in it."

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

16  As for me, I knew nothing except what I gathered from Time magazine and reading everything I could lay hands on at home, but as I inched sluggishly along the treadmill of the Maycomb County school system, I could not help receiving the impression that I was being cheated out of something.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

17  In England, Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren, and as Simon called himself a Methodist, he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens.

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