THE in Classic Quotes

1  When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

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

2  When my father was admitted to the bar, he returned to Maycomb and began his practice.

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

3  Maycomb, some twenty miles east of Finch's Landing, was the county seat of Maycomb County.

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

4  I said if he wanted to take a broad view of the thing, it really began with Andrew Jackson.

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

5  He said it began the summer Dill came to us, when Dill first gave us the idea of making Boo Radley come out.

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

6  I maintain that the Ewells started it all, but Jem, who was four years my senior, said it started long before that.

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

7  When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident.

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

8  It was customary for the men in the family to remain on Simon's homestead, Finch's Landing, and make their living from cotton.

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

9  Atticus's office in the courthouse contained little more than a hat rack, a spittoon, a checkerboard and an unsullied Code of Alabama.

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

10  Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either side of the Battle of Hastings.

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

11  His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh.

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

12  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

13  So Simon, having forgotten his teacher's dictum on the possession of human chattels, bought three slaves and with their aid established a homestead on the banks of the Alabama River some forty miles above Saint Stephens.

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

14  The place was self-sufficient: modest in comparison with the empires around it, the Landing nevertheless produced everything required to sustain life except ice, wheat flour, and articles of clothing, supplied by river-boats from Mobile.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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15  Mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling, Simon made a pile practicing medicine, but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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16  In England, Simon was irritated by the persecution of those who called themselves Methodists at the hands of their more liberal brethren, and as Simon called himself a Methodist, he worked his way across the Atlantic to Philadelphia, thence to Jamaica, thence to Mobile, and up the Saint Stephens.

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

17  Simon would have regarded with impotent fury the disturbance between the North and the South, as it left his descendants stripped of everything but their land, yet the tradition of living on the land remained unbroken until well into the twentieth century, when my father, Atticus Finch, went to Montgomery to read law, and his younger brother went to Boston to study medicine.

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