FIRE in Classic Quotes

1  Jem picked up the candy box and threw it in the fire.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

2  I kept a fire in there last night for my potted plants.

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

3  I shuddered when Atticus started a fire in the kitchen stove.

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

4  Before I went to sleep Atticus put more coal on the fire in my room.

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

5  At the front door, we saw fire spewing from Miss Maudie's diningroom windows.

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

6  Another fire truck appeared and stopped in front of Miss Stephanie Crawford's.

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

7  I told Jem if he set fire to the Radley house I was going to tell Atticus on him.

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

8  The old fire truck, killed by the cold, was being pushed from town by a crowd of men.

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

9  We stood watching the street fill with men and cars while fire silently devoured Miss Maudie's house.

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

10  Behind us, the fire truck from Abbottsville screamed around the curve and stopped in front of our house.

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

11  They pushed the Maycomb fire truck back to town, the Abbottsville truck departed, the third one remained.

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

12  As if to confirm what we saw, the town fire siren wailed up the scale to a treble pitch and remained there, screaming.

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

13  The Abbottsville fire truck began pumping water on our house; a man on the roof pointed to places that needed it most.

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

14  The fire was well into the second floor and had eaten its way to the roof: window frames were black against a vivid orange center.

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

15  She was entrusted with issuing public announcements, wedding invitations, setting off the fire siren, and giving first-aid instructions when Dr. Reynolds was away.

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

16  Roaring, the house collapsed; fire gushed everywhere, followed by a flurry of blankets from men on top of the adjacent houses, beating out sparks and burning chunks of wood.

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

17  Dill was of the opinion that an appeal to Atticus's better nature might work: after all, we would starve if Mr. Ewell killed him, besides be raised exclusively by Aunt Alexandra, and we all knew the first thing she'd do before Atticus was under the ground good would be to fire Calpurnia.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23