AGAINST in Classic Quotes

1  Mr. Raymond sat up against the tree-trunk.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 20

2  "Why, I didn't think you'd hold it against me," he said.

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

3  Jem leaned on a pillar, rubbing his shoulders against it.

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

4  He bent my baton against his knee, snapped it in two and threw it down.

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

5  In the light from its bare bulb, Atticus was sitting propped against the front door.

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

6  Mayella looked at her father, who was sitting with his chair tipped against the railing.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

7  I turned to Atticus, but Atticus had gone to the jail and was leaning against it with his face to the wall.

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

8  "Everybody who goes home to lunch hold up your hands," said Miss Caroline, breaking into my new grudge against Calpurnia.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 2

9  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

10  Looking down the hall, we should have seen Atticus Finch, Attorney-at-Law in small sober letters against the light from behind his door.

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

11  Our first raid came to pass only because Dill bet Jem The Gray Ghost against two Tom Swifts that Jem wouldn't get any farther than the Radley gate.

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

12  This was enough to make Jem march to the corner, where he stopped and leaned against the light-pole, watching the gate hanging crazily on its homemade hinge.

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

13  I went so far as to pay a nickel for the privilege of rubbing my head against the head of Miss Rachel's cook's son, who was afflicted with a tremendous ringworm.

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

14  One day we were so busily playing Chapter XXV, Book II of One Man's Family, we did not see Atticus standing on the sidewalk looking at us, slapping a rolled magazine against his knee.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

15  It's against the law, all right," said my father, "and it's certainly bad, but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 3

16  His sermon was a forthright denunciation of sin, an austere declaration of the motto on the wall behind him: he warned his flock against the evils of heady brews, gambling, and strange women.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

17  Every night-sound I heard from my cot on the back porch was magnified three-fold; every scratch of feet on gravel was Boo Radley seeking revenge, every passing Negro laughing in the night was Boo Radley loose and after us; insects splashing against the screen were Boo Radley's insane fingers picking the wire to pieces; the chinaberry trees were malignant, hovering, alive.

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