-“Miss Emily Grierson died, the whole town went to her funeral,” (Faulkner I).
-“. . .But garages and cotton gins had encroached and obliterated even the august names of that neighborhood; only Miss Emily 's house was left,” (Faulkner I).
-“And now Miss Emily had gone to join the representatives of those august names where they lay in the cedar-bemused cemetery. . .” (Faulkner I).
-“Alive, Miss Emily had been a tradition, a duty, and a care,” (Faulkner I).
-“. . .dispensation dating from the death of her father on into perpetuity,” (Faulkner I).
-“On the first of the year they mailed her a tax notice,” (Faulkner I).
-“A week later the mayor wrote her himself. . .” (Faulkner I).
-“They rose when she entered--a small, fat woman in black, with a thin gold chain descending to her waist and vanishing into her belt. . .” (Faulkner I)
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Tobe!" The Negro appeared. "Show these gentlemen out,” (Faulkner I).
-“That was two years after her father 's death and a short time after her sweetheart--the one we believed would marry her --had deserted her,” (Faulkner II).
-“After her father 's death she went out very little; after her sweetheart went away, people hardly saw her at all,” (Faulkner II).
-“So the next night, after midnight, four men crossed Miss Emily 's lawn and slunk about the house like burglars, sniffing along the base of the brickwork,” (Faulkner II).
-“When her father died, it got about that the house was all that was left to her; and in a way, people were glad,” (Faulkner II).
-“The day after his death all the ladies prepared to call at the house and offer condolence and aid,” (Faulkner