AVERY in Classic Quotes

1  Mr. Avery just does like this.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7

2  Gradually Mr. Avery turned white.

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

3  Miss Rachel and Mr. Avery were near by.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

4  Mr. Avery began climbing through the window.

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

5  Then Mr. Avery's face appeared in an upstairs window.

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

6  I looked up to see Mr. Avery cross the upstairs porch.

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

7  Mr. Avery boarded across the street from Mrs. Henry Lafayette Dubose's house.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

8  When we were on the sidewalk in front of Miss Maudie's, Mr. Avery accosted us.

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

9  Mr. Avery averaged a stick of stovewood per week; he honed it down to a toothpick and chewed it.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 7

10  Using bits of wood for eyes, nose, mouth, and buttons, Jem succeeded in making Mr. Avery look cross.

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

11  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

12  Besides making change in the collection plate every Sunday, Mr. Avery sat on the porch every night until nine o'clock and sneezed.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

13  The men jumped a little and scattered; they were people we saw every day: merchants, in-town farmers; Dr. Reynolds was there; so was Mr. Avery.

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

14  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

15  The snow stopped in the afternoon, the temperature dropped, and by nightfall Mr. Avery's direst predictions came true: Calpurnia kept every fireplace in the house blazing, but we were cold.

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

16  Jem said Mr. Avery misfigured, Dill said he must drink a gallon a day, and the ensuing contest to determine relative distances and respective prowess only made me feel left out again, as I was untalented in this area.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 6

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.

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