WHEN in Classic Quotes

1  Our mother died when I was two, so I never felt her absence.

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

2  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

3  People said he went out at night when the moon was down, and peeped in windows.

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

4  She was a Graham from Montgomery; Atticus met her when he was first elected to the state legislature.

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  But there came a day, barely within Jem's memory, when Boo Radley was heard from and was seen by several people, but not by Jem.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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7  At last the sawhorses were taken away, and we stood watching from the front porch when Mr. Radley made his final journey past our house.

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

8  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

9  Miss Stephanie said old Mr. Radley said no Radley was going to any asylum, when it was suggested that a season in Tuscaloosa might be helpful to Boo.

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

10  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
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11  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

12  Mrs. Radley ran screaming into the street that Arthur was killing them all, but when the sheriff arrived he found Boo still sitting in the livingroom, cutting up the Tribune.

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

13  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

14  The neighborhood thought when Mr. Radley went under Boo would come out, but it had another think coming: Boo's elder brother returned from Pensacola and took Mr. Radley's place.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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15  John Hale Finch was ten years younger than my father, and chose to study medicine at a time when cotton was not worth growing; but after getting Uncle Jack started, Atticus derived a reasonable income from the law.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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16  According to neighborhood legend, when the younger Radley boy was in his teens he became acquainted with some of the Cunninghams from Old Sarum, an enormous and confusing tribe domiciled in the northern part of the county, and they formed the nearest thing to a gang ever seen in Maycomb.

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