| Sentence | Part of Speech | Word |
| When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. | |
| 'Your father does not know how to teach.' | |
| Thus we came to know Dill as a pocket Merlin, whose head teemed with eccentric plans, strange longings, and quaint fancies. | |
| She was a Graham from Montgomery. | |
| Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. | |
| That was the summer Dill came to us. | |
| Atticus's voice was flinty. | |
| 'Huh, sir?' | |
| Jem gave a reasonable description of Boo. | |
| People moved slowly then. | |
| | Sentence | Part of Speech | Word |
| Miss Caroline apparently thought I was lying. | |
| Inside the house lived a malevolent phantom. | |
| Dill was a curiosity. | |
| 'Were you ever a turtle, huh?' | |
| Dill left us early in September, to return to Meridian. | |
| The old house was the same, droopy and sick, but as we stared down the street we thought we saw an inside shutter move. | |
| 'I'm Charles Baker Harris,' he said. 'I can read.' | |
| Jem was the product of their first year of marriage. | |
| 'Folks call me Dill,' said Dill, struggling under the fence. | |
| Our father said we were both right. | |
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