SHE in Classic Quotes

1  "Here's a quarter," she said to Walter.

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

2  The town children did so, and she looked us over.

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

3  He was middle-aged then, she was fifteen years his junior.

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

4  "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

5  "Jean Louise, I've had about enough of you this morning," she said.

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

6  Scout yonder's been readin ever since she was born, and she ain't even started to school yet.

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

7  In Calpurnia's teaching, there was no sentimentality: I seldom pleased her and she seldom rewarded me.

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

8  She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard.

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

9  "There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into," murmured Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard.

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

10  The class murmured apprehensively, should she prove to harbor her share of the peculiarities indigenous to that region.

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

11  If I reproduced her penmanship satisfactorily, she rewarded me with an open-faced sandwich of bread and butter and sugar.

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

12  So Jem received most of his information from Miss Stephanie Crawford, a neighborhood scold, who said she knew the whole thing.

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

13  I thought she was going to spit in it, which was the only reason anybody in Maycomb held out his hand: it was a time-honored method of sealing oral contracts.

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

14  She was always ordering me out of the kitchen, asking me why I couldn't behave as well as Jem when she knew he was older, and calling me home when I wasn't ready to come.

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

15  But there came a day when Atticus told us he'd wear us out if we made any noise in the yard and commissioned Calpurnia to serve in his absence if she heard a sound out of us.

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

16  Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the Landing: she married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.

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

17  I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making me read most of My First Reader and the stock-market quotations from The Mobile Register aloud, she discovered that I was literate and looked at me with more than faint distaste.

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