WONDER in Classic Quotes

1  I wondered what the summer would bring.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

2  "Shoot no wonder, then," said Jem, jerking his thumb at me.

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

3  I wonder how much of the day I spend just callin after you.

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

4  Mr. Heck Tate was present, and I wondered if he had seen the light.

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

5  We often wondered who else's words Mr. Gilmer was afraid his witness might employ.

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

6  I wondered if Jem's activities had put her there, and for a moment I felt sorry for her.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

7  Glancing below, I saw no corresponding reaction, and wondered if Jem was trying to be dramatic.

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

8  "Seb'm," she said, and I wondered if they were all like the specimen I had seen the first day I started to school.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

9  I did not wonder where Mr. Avery gathered his meteorological statistics: they came straight from the Rosetta Stone.

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

10  I wondered if anybody had ever called her "ma'am," or "Miss Mayella" in her life; probably not, as she took offense to routine courtesy.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

11  A strange small spasm shook him, as if he heard fingernails scrape slate, but as I gazed at him in wonder the tension slowly drained from his face.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 29

12  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

13  One of the elderly members of the class answered her: "He's one of the Ewells, ma'am," and I wondered if this explanation would be as unsuccessful as my attempt.

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

14  I so often wondered how she could be Atticus's and Uncle Jack's sister that I revived half-remembered tales of changelings and mandrake roots that Jem had spun long ago.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

15  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

16  I wondered if Mr. Avery knew how hopefully we had watched last summer for him to repeat his performance, and reflected that if this was our reward, there was something to say for sin.

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

17  In later years, I sometimes wondered exactly what made Jem do it, what made him break the bonds of "You just be a gentleman, son," and the phase of self-conscious rectitude he had recently entered.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11