SILENCE in Classic Quotes

1  In the silence, I heard them crack.

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

2  I turned to Jem, who waved me to silence.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15

3  Reverend Sykes was standing behind the pulpit staring the congregation to silence.

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

4  Dill grabbed the clapper; in the silence that followed, I wished he'd start ringing it again.

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

5  Miss Maudie must have silenced the whole missionary society at one blow, for Aunty again ruled that roost.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 27

6  No comment seemed to be expected of us, and the class received these impressionistic revelations in silence.

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

7  He waited in amiable silence, and I sought to reinforce my position: "You never went to school and you do all right, so I'll just stay home too."

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

8  Miss Tutti denied it and lived in a world of silence, but Miss Frutti, not about to miss anything, employed an ear trumpet so enormous that Jem declared it was a loudspeaker from one of those dog Victrolas.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 27

9  People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for, and they have the right to subject their children to it, but I can assure you of one thing: you will receive what you see and hear in silence or you will leave this courtroom, but you won't leave it until the whole boiling of you come before me on contempt charges.

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