OAK in Classic Quotes

1  He ran to the oak tree in his shorts.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

2  She was rocking slowly in her big oak chair.

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

3  We chose the fattest live oak and we sat under it.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 19

4  They stopped at an oak tree, delighted, puzzled, apprehensive.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 31

5  But there wasn't any wind and there weren't any trees except the big oak.

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

6  I felt the sand go cold under my feet and I knew we were near the big oak.

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

7  I can tell we're under the big oak because we're passin through a cool spot.

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

8  Rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda; oak trees kept the sun away.

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

9  The tree was a single and ancient oak; two children could not reach around its trunk and touch hands.

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

10  Two live oaks stood at the edge of the Radley lot; their roots reached out into the side-road and made it bumpy.

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

11  I saw Atticus carrying Miss Maudie's heavy oak rocking chair, and thought it sensible of him to save what she valued most.

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

12  The Radley Place had ceased to terrify me, but it was no less gloomy, no less chilly under its great oaks, and no less uninviting.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 26

13  Jem held the bottom wire; Dill and I rolled through and were halfway to the shelter of the schoolyard's solitary oak when we sensed that Jem was not with us.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

14  Behind the rough oak pulpit a faded pink silk banner proclaimed God Is Love, the church's only decoration except a rotogravure print of Hunt's The Light of the World.

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

15  Somehow, it was hotter then: a black dog suffered on a summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flies in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square.

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

16  This was a group of white-shirted, khaki-trousered, suspendered old men who had spent their lives doing nothing and passed their twilight days doing same on pine benches under the live oaks on the square.

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

17  As we came to the live oaks at the Radley Place I raised my finger to point for the hundredth time to the knot-hole where I had found the chewing gum, trying to make Jem believe I had found it there, and found myself pointing at another piece of tinfoil.

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