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Quotes from To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
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1 "He'll be so presently," said Atticus.
2 "It's just old Cecil," said Jem presently.
3 Mr. Heck Tate was present, and I wondered if he had seen the light.
4 Uncle Jimmy present or Uncle Jimmy absent made not much difference, he never said anything.
5 When Halloween came, I assumed that the whole family would be present to watch me perform, but I was disappointed.
6 Having been so accustomed to his absence, I found it incredible that he had been sitting beside me all this time, present.
7 But for the south porch, the Maycomb County courthouse was early Victorian, presenting an unoffensive vista when seen from the north.
8 Through the weeks he had cultivated an expression of polite and detached interest, which he would present to her in answer to her most blood-curdling inventions.
9 So far, things were utterly dull: nobody had thundered, there were no arguments between opposing counsel, there was no drama; a grave disappointment to all present, it seemed.
10 When we arrived at the Landing, Aunt Alexandra kissed Uncle Jack, Francis kissed Uncle Jack, Uncle Jimmy shook hands silently with Uncle Jack, Jem and I gave our presents to Francis, who gave us a present.
11 When we arrived at the Landing, Aunt Alexandra kissed Uncle Jack, Francis kissed Uncle Jack, Uncle Jimmy shook hands silently with Uncle Jack, Jem and I gave our presents to Francis, who gave us a present.
12 They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law.
13 To all parties present and participating in the life of the county, Aunt Alexandra was one of the last of her kind: she had river-boat, boarding-school manners; let any moral come along and she would uphold it; she was born in the objective case; she was an incurable gossip.
14 There was indeed a caste system in Maycomb, but to my mind it worked this way: the older citizens, the present generation of people who had lived side by side for years and years, were utterly predictable to one another: they took for granted attitudes, character shadings, even gestures, as having been repeated in each generation and refined by time.