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1  Go down and stand in front of the Radley Place.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8
2  There he would stand, his arm around the fat pole, staring and wondering.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
3  She was a beautiful yellow female Uncle Jack said was one of the few women he could stand permanently.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
4  The witness made a hasty descent from the stand and ran smack into Atticus, who had risen to question him.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17
5  Miss Caroline picked up her ruler, gave me half a dozen quick little pats, then told me to stand in the corner.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
6  The witness stand was to the right of Judge Taylor, and when we got to our seats Mr. Heck Tate was already on it.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16
7  I began to feel sweat gathering at the edges of my hair; I could stand anything but a bunch of people looking at me.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15
8  I was debating whether to stand there or run, and tarried in indecision a moment too long: I turned to flee but Uncle Jack was quicker.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
9  The more we told Dill about the Radleys, the more he wanted to know, the longer he would stand hugging the light-pole on the corner, the more he would wonder.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
10  In answer to the clerk's booming voice, a little bantam cock of a man rose and strutted to the stand, the back of his neck reddening at the sound of his name.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17
11  Atticus sat down and nodded to the circuit solicitor, who shook his head at the judge, who nodded to Mr. Tate, who rose stiffly and stepped down from the witness stand.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17
12  When Mr. Nathan Radley passed us on his daily trip to town, we would stand still and silent until he was out of sight, then wonder what he would do to us if he suspected.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4
13  All the little man on the witness stand had that made him any better than his nearest neighbors was, that if scrubbed with lye soap in very hot water, his skin was white.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17
14  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
15  Smugness faded from it, replaced by a dogged earnestness that fooled Judge Taylor not at all: as long as Mr. Ewell was on the stand, the judge kept his eyes on him, as if daring him to make a false move.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17
16  Mr. Ewell wrote on the back of the envelope and looked up complacently to see Judge Taylor staring at him as if he were some fragrant gardenia in full bloom on the witness stand, to see Mr. Gilmer half-sitting, half-standing at his table.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17
17  If she found a blade of nut grass in her yard it was like the Second Battle of the Marne: she swooped down upon it with a tin tub and subjected it to blasts from beneath with a poisonous substance she said was so powerful it'd kill us all if we didn't stand out of the way.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5
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