AWAY in Classic Quotes

1  "Let's get away from here," breathed Jem.

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

2  Jem waved my words away as if fanning gnats.

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

3  When I joined them, as usual they said go away.

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

4  It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight.

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

5  "Let's not let our imaginations run away with us, dear," she said.

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

6  We found out next day it had come from Clark's Ferry, sixty miles away.

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

7  I stomped at him to chase him away, but Jem put out his hand and stopped me.

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

8  Rain-rotted shingles drooped over the eaves of the veranda; oak trees kept the sun away.

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

9  Jem's free dispensation of my pledge irked me, but precious noontime minutes were ticking away.

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

10  Jem's white shirt-tail dipped and bobbed like a small ghost dancing away to escape the coming morning.

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

11  Suddenly I noticed that the men were backing away from Miss Maudie's house, moving down the street toward us.

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

12  ; she sat in the livingroom and cried most of the time, while Boo slowly whittled away all the furniture in the house.

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

13  At last the sawhorses were taken away, and we stood watching from the front porch when Mr. Radley made his final journey past our house.

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

14  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

15  The three of us were the boys who got into trouble; I was the probate judge, for a change; Dill led Jem away and crammed him beneath the steps, poking him with the brushbroom.

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

16  If the remainder of the school year were as fraught with drama as the first day, perhaps it would be mildly entertaining, but the prospect of spending nine months refraining from reading and writing made me think of running away.

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

17  The town decided something had to be done; Mr. Conner said he knew who each and every one of them was, and he was bound and determined they wouldn't get away with it, so the boys came before the probate judge on charges of disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault and battery, and using abusive and profane language in the presence and hearing of a female.

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