TOWN in Classic Quotes

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

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

2  But every day Jem and I would see Mr. Radley walking to and from town.

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

3  Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.

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

4  The old fire truck, killed by the cold, was being pushed from town by a crowd of men.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

5  I turned around and saw most of the town people and the entire bus delegation looking at me.

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

6  The Radleys, welcome anywhere in town, kept to themselves, a predilection unforgivable in Maycomb.

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

7  They pushed the Maycomb fire truck back to town, the Abbottsville truck departed, the third one remained.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

8  He waited a respectful distance from the front steps, watched Atticus leave the house and walk toward town.

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

9  As if to confirm what we saw, the town fire siren wailed up the scale to a treble pitch and remained there, screaming.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8

10  Mr. Nathan would speak to us, however, when we said good morning, and sometimes we saw him coming from town with a magazine in his hand.

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

11  Miss Stephanie Crawford said some of the town council told Mr. Radley that if he didn't take Boo back, Boo would die of mold from the damp.

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

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  Mr. Radley walked to town at eleven-thirty every morning and came back promptly at twelve, sometimes carrying a brown paper bag that the neighborhood assumed contained the family groceries.

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

14  He liked Maycomb, he was Maycomb County born and bred; he knew his people, they knew him, and because of Simon Finch's industry, Atticus was related by blood or marriage to nearly every family in the town.

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

15  Once the town was terrorized by a series of morbid nocturnal events: people's chickens and household pets were found mutilated; although the culprit was Crazy Addie, who eventually drowned himself in Barker's Eddy, people still looked at the Radley Place, unwilling to discard their initial suspicions.

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

16  They did little, but enough to be discussed by the town and publicly warned from three pulpits: they hung around the barbershop; they rode the bus to Abbottsville on Sundays and went to the picture show; they attended dances at the county's riverside gambling hell, the Dew-Drop Inn & Fishing Camp; they experimented with stumphole whiskey.

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

17  The town decided something had to be done; Mr. Conner said he knew who each and every one of them was, and he was bound and determined they wouldn't get away with it, so the boys came before the probate judge on charges of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and using abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of a female.

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