Go Set a Watchman — Vocabulary
Harper Lee
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That Sunday, Jean Louise and the congregation were in all innocence clearing their throats to drag it accordingly when out of a cloudless sky Mrs. Clyde Haskins crashed down on the organ†p.93.9alternate pages10 more

Maycomb's regular pastors ate free for a week also, and it was hinted in disrespectful quarters that the local clergy deliberately led their churches into holding separate services, thereby gaining two more weeks' honoraria.p.60.9alternate pages6 more

Slowly and deliberately Calpurnia told her the simple story.p.137.6alternate pages6 more

Ah—I thought the Communists were all for violent overthrow and that sort of thing.†p.174.8alternate pages8 more

Atticus, trying to reconcile them, asked Helen would she take her husband back.p.157.7alternate pages1 more

In the sundry church wars that were a living part of Maycomb Methodism, Herbert could be counted on as the one person to keep his head, talk sense, and reconcile the more primitive elements of the congregation with the Young Turk faction.p.94.8alternate pages1 more

Her father, after making his initial campaign, served in the state legislature for as long as he wished, without opposition.†p.77.7alternate pages6 more

Jean Louise Finch always made this journey by air, but she decided to go by train from New York to Maycomb Junction on her fifth annual trip home.†p.3.6alternate pages5 more

Not a big one, just an ordinary turnip-sized bigot.†p.267.1alternate pages5 more

She wished she had paid more attention to them, but only one glance down a column of print was enough to tell her a familiar story: same people who were the Invisible Empire, who hated Catholics; ignorant, fear-ridden, red-faced, boorish, law-abiding, one hundred per cent red-blooded Anglo-Saxons, her fellow Americans—trash.p.104.8alternate pages5 more

Uncle Jack was one of the abiding pleasures of Maycomb.p.49.7alternate pages5 more

Her companions were the lazier of the Old Sarum boys, the laziest of whom was one Albert Coningham, a slow thinker to whom Jean Louise had rendered invaluable service during six-weeks' tests.p.127.8alternate pages1 more

Maycomb and Maycomb County had taught him things she had never known, could never learn, and Maycomb had rendered her useless to him as anything other than his oldest friend.p.276.6alternate pages1 more

After dinner she returned to the tree and sat there until twilight, when she heard Atticus call her.p.130.9alternate pages2 more

...a recurring story as old as time: the chapter which concerned her began two hundred years ago and was played out in a proud society the bloodiest war and harshest peace in modern history could not destroy, returning, to be played out again on private ground in the twilight of a civilization no wars and no peace could save.p.122.7alternate pages2 more

Then go back to New York and be uninhibited.†p.22.6alternate pages1 more

"Aunty," she said, cordially, "why don't you go pee in your hat?"†p.38.1alternate pages1 more

She felt sorry for middle-aged matrons who after much analysis discovered that the seat of their anxiety was in their seats; she felt sorry for persons who called their fathers My Old Man, denoting that they were raffish, probably boozy ineffective creatures who had disappointed their children dreadfully and unforgivably somewhere along the line.†p.118.6alternate pages1 more

Abstract justice written down item by item on a brief—nothing to do with that black boy, you just like a neat brief.p.248.2alternate pages2 more

She wondered if those were the same abstracts, files, and professional impedimenta on his desk that were there when she would run in, out of breath, desperate for an ice cream cone, and request a nickel.p.237.3alternate pages2 more