TRYING in Classic Quotes

1  He's not trying to mock you, he's trying to be polite.

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

2  She seemed to be trying to get something clear to herself.

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

3  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

4  I guess he was trying to answer my question, but he made no sense whatsoever.

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

5  In the midst of this strange assembly, Atticus stood trying to make Jem mind him.

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

6  I'm just trying to tell you the new way they're teachin the first grade, stubborn.

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

7  Soon we were clustered around her desk, trying in our various ways to comfort her.

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

8  Before bedtime I was in Jem's room trying to borrow a book, when Atticus knocked and entered.

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

9  Glancing below, I saw no corresponding reaction, and wondered if Jem was trying to be dramatic.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

10  From long years of experience, I could tell he was trying to come to a decision about something.

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

11  Occasionally I looked back at Jem, who was patiently trying to place the note on the window sill.

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

12  I didn't think so: Atticus was trying to show, it seemed to me, that Mr. Ewell could have beaten up Mayella.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 17

13  The Methodists were trying to pay off their church mortgage, and had challenged the Baptists to a game of touch football.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 10

14  Overnight, it seemed, Jem had acquired an alien set of values and was trying to impose them on me: several times he went so far as to tell me what to do.

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

15  Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the treehouse; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.

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

16  As we came to the live oaks at the Radley Place I raised my finger to point for the hundredth time to the knot-hole where I had found the chewing gum, trying to make Jem believe I had found it there, and found myself pointing at another piece of tinfoil.

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

17  He said he was trying to get Miss Maudie's goat, that he had been trying unsuccessfully for forty years, that he was the last person in the world Miss Maudie would think about marrying but the first person she thought about teasing, and the best defense to her was spirited offense, all of which we understood clearly.

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