TRY in Classic Quotes

1  Dill tried to deepen his voice.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

2  Atticus took it and tried to read it.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

3  Said he tried to shoot the president.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

4  So I left Jem alone and tried not to bother him.

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

5  He stood still, then tried his weight by degrees.

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

6  I tried to keep up with him, but he read too fast.

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

7  Jem tried to keep me warm, but his arm was not enough.

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

8  Jem tried to say something nice, but I wouldn't let him.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

9  She hung up and shook her head when we tried to ask her what Atticus had said.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

10  She tried to block Jem and me with her body, but we looked out from beneath her arms.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

11  He slapped me and I tried another left, but a punch in the stomach sent me sprawling on the floor.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14

12  There was no hydrant for another hose, and the men tried to soak her house with hand extinguishers.

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

13  I tried to explain to Atticus that it wasn't so much what Francis said that had infuriated me as the way he had said it.

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

14  He made a few hesitant steps and stopped in front of the Radley gate; then he tried to turn around, but was having difficulty.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

15  Said Cousin Joshua said he wasn't anything but a sewer-inspector and tried to shoot him with an old flintlock pistol, only it just blew up in his hand.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 13

16  Uncle Jack plunged into another long tale about an old Prime Minister who sat in the House of Commons and blew feathers in the air and tried to keep them there when all about him men were losing their heads.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

17  As Atticus had once advised me to do, I tried to climb into Jem's skin and walk around in it: if I had gone alone to the Radley Place at two in the morning, my funeral would have been held the next afternoon.

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