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 Current Search - fighting in To Kill a Mockingbird
1  Mr. Finch, I hate to fight you when you're like this.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 30
2  It was the first time I ever walked away from a fight.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
3  I would fight anyone from a third cousin upwards tooth and nail.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10
4  This time we aren't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our friends.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9
5  He had to, that's why he was doing it, equaled fewer fights and less fussing.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16
6  Today Aunt Alexandra and her missionary circle were fighting the good fight all over the house.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24
7  Today Aunt Alexandra and her missionary circle were fighting the good fight all over the house.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24
8  A small patch of earth beneath its branches was packed hard from many fights and furtive crap games.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28
9  This was not entirely correct: I wouldn't fight publicly for Atticus, but the family was private ground.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10
10  It nearly knocked the breath out of me, but it didn't matter because I knew he was fighting, he was fighting me back.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 14
11  Jem saw that he would have to fight me to keep me home, and I suppose he thought a fight would antagonize Aunty, so he gave in with little grace.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 15
12  What Jem did was something I'd do as a matter of course had I not been under Atticus's interdict, which I assumed included not fighting horrible old ladies.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11
13  When it bonged eleven times I was past feeling: tired from fighting sleep, I allowed myself a short nap against Reverend Sykes's comfortable arm and shoulder.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 21
14  After my bout with Cecil Jacobs when I committed myself to a policy of cowardice, word got around that Scout Finch wouldn't fight any more, her daddy wouldn't let her.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10
15  Mr. Tate added that Atticus wasn't going to stand there and maintain that any boy Jem's size with a busted arm had fight enough left in him to tackle and kill a grown man in the pitch dark.
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Context   In PART 2: Chapter 30
16  Atticus had promised me he would wear me out if he ever heard of me fighting any more; I was far too old and too big for such childish things, and the sooner I learned to hold in, the better off everybody would be.
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Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9