MAN in Classic Quotes

1  It was the shadow of a man with a hat on.

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

2  He was clearly tired of being our character man.

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

3  Jem sloshed water over the mud man and added more dirt.

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

4  I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man.

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

5  A thin man in khaki pants came up the aisle and deposited a coin.

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

6  He was a thin leathery man with colorless eyes, so colorless they did not reflect light.

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

7  Son," he said to Jem, "I'm going to tell you something and tell you one time: stop tormenting that man.

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

8  "There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into," murmured Calpurnia, and she spat meditatively into the yard.

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

9  The Abbottsville fire truck began pumping water on our house; a man on the roof pointed to places that needed it most.

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

10  It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.

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

11  He was a short, stocky man in a black suit, black tie, white shirt, and a gold watch-chain that glinted in the light from the frosted windows.

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

12  Scout, you aren't old enough to understand some things yet, but there's been some high talk around town to the effect that I shouldn't do much about defending this man.

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

13  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

14  Their sister Alexandra was the Finch who remained at the Landing: she married a taciturn man who spent most of his time lying in a hammock by the river wondering if his trot-lines were full.

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

15  Jem, educated on a half-Decimal half-Duncecap basis, seemed to function effectively alone or in a group, but Jem was a poor example: no tutorial system devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books.

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

16  Atticus kept us in fits that evening, gravely reading columns of print about a man who sat on a flagpole for no discernible reason, which was reason enough for Jem to spend the following Saturday aloft in the treehouse.

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

17  Hours of wintertime had found me in the treehouse, looking over at the schoolyard, spying on multitudes of children through a two-power telescope Jem had given me, learning their games, following Jem's red jacket through wriggling circles of blind man's buff, secretly sharing their misfortunes and minor victories.

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