FOR in Classic Quotes

1  Jem thought about it for three days.

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

2  Jem and I crept around the yard for days.

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

3  We looked at her in surprise, for Calpurnia rarely commented on the ways of white people.

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

4  I suppose he loved honor more than his head, for Dill wore him down easily: "You're scared," Dill said, the first day.

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

5  Of all days Sunday was the day for formal afternoon visiting: ladies wore corsets, men wore coats, children wore shoes.

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

6  It was customary for the men in the family to remain on Simon's homestead, Finch's Landing, and make their living from cotton.

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

7  The doors of the Radley house were closed on weekdays as well as Sundays, and Mr. Radley's boy was not seen again for fifteen years.

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

8  But it was a time of vague optimism for some of the people: Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself.

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

9  There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with, nothing to see outside the boundaries of Maycomb County.

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

10  The Radley Place was inhabited by an unknown entity the mere description of whom was enough to make us behave for days on end; Mrs. Dubose was plain hell.

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

11  During his first five years in Maycomb, Atticus practiced economy more than anything; for several years thereafter he invested his earnings in his brother's education.

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

12  His family was from Maycomb County originally, his mother worked for a photographer in Meridian, had entered his picture in a Beautiful Child contest and won five dollars.

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

13  The judge decided to send the boys to the state industrial school, where boys were sometimes sent for no other reason than to provide them with food and decent shelter: it was no prison and it was no disgrace.

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

14  They did not go to church, Maycomb's principal recreation, but worshiped at home; Mrs. Radley seldom if ever crossed the street for a mid-morning coffee break with her neighbors, and certainly never joined a missionary circle.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
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15  They persisted in pleading Not Guilty to first-degree murder, so there was nothing much Atticus could do for his clients except be present at their departure, an occasion that was probably the beginning of my father's profound distaste for the practice of criminal law.

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

16  Mindful of John Wesley's strictures on the use of many words in buying and selling, Simon made a pile practicing medicine, but in this pursuit he was unhappy lest he be tempted into doing what he knew was not for the glory of God, as the putting on of gold and costly apparel.

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

17  The Haverfords had dispatched Maycomb's leading blacksmith in a misunderstanding arising from the alleged wrongful detention of a mare, were imprudent enough to do it in the presence of three witnesses, and insisted that the-son-of-a-bitch-had-it-coming-to-him was a good enough defense for anybody.

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