OUR in Classic Quotes

1  The Radley Place jutted into a sharp curve beyond our house.

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

2  Safely on our porch, panting and out of breath, we looked back.

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

3  "Let's not let our imaginations run away with us, dear," she said.

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

4  By the time we reached our front steps Walter had forgotten he was a Cunningham.

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

5  Soon we were clustered around her desk, trying in our various ways to comfort her.

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

6  Dr. Reynolds parked his car in front of our house and walked to the Radley's every time he called.

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

7  It was our habit to run meet Atticus the moment we saw him round the post office corner in the distance.

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

8  Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.

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

9  At last the sawhorses were taken away, and we stood watching from the front porch when Mr. Radley made his final journey past our house.

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

10  Jem was the product of their first year of marriage; four years later I was born, and two years later our mother died from a sudden heart attack.

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

11  Early one morning as we were beginning our day's play in the back yard, Jem and I heard something next door in Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch.

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

12  But by the end of August our repertoire was vapid from countless reproductions, and it was then that Dill gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

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

13  In spite of our warnings and explanations it drew him as the moon draws water, but drew him no nearer than the light-pole on the corner, a safe distance from the Radley gate.

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

14  Jem and I were accustomed to our father's last-will-and-testament diction, and we were at all times free to interrupt Atticus for a translation when it was beyond our understanding.

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

15  Before the first morning was over, Miss Caroline Fisher, our teacher, hauled me up to the front of the room and patted the palm of my hand with a ruler, then made me stand in the corner until noon.

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

16  As the year passed, released from school thirty minutes before Jem, who had to stay until three o'clock, I ran by the Radley Place as fast as I could, not stopping until I reached the safety of our front porch.

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

17  Routine contentment was: improving our treehouse that rested between giant twin chinaberry trees in the back yard, fussing, running through our list of dramas based on the works of Oliver Optic, Victor Appleton, and Edgar Rice Burroughs.

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