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 Current Search - children in To Kill a Mockingbird
1  Jem and me's the only children around here.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10
2  The town children did so, and she looked us over.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
3  They were almost perfect miniatures of two children.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7
4  She said I didn't understand children much and told me why.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
5  "I was coming from the office and didn't see the children," he said.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11
6  "I don't want anybody sayin I don't look after my children," she muttered.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12
7  Miss Maudie had known Uncle Jack Finch, Atticus's brother, since they were children.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5
8  Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, and evasion simply muddles 'em.'
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
9  Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
10  Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
11  A lovelier lady than our mother never lived, she said, and it was heartbreaking the way Atticus Finch let her children run wild.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11
12  There were six bedrooms upstairs, four for the eight female children, one for Welcome Finch, the sole son, and one for visiting relatives.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
13  If he wanted to stay inside his own house he had the right to stay inside free from the attentions of inquisitive children, which was a mild term for the likes of us.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5
14  It's against the law, all right," said my father, "and it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.
To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3
15  The Maycomb school grounds adjoined the back of the Radley lot; from the Radley chickenyard tall pecan trees shook their fruit into the schoolyard, but the nuts lay untouched by the children: Radley pecans would kill you.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 1
16  Hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Jem had given me, learning their games, following Jem's red jacket through wriggling circles of blind man's buff, secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2
17  Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 8
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