WORK in Classic Quotes

1  It takes a woman to do that kind of work.

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

2  He shifted his feet, clad in heavy work shoes.

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

3  As usual, we met Atticus coming home from work that evening.

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

4  Any stealthy small crimes committed in Maycomb were his work.

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

5  None of them had done an honest day's work in his recollection.

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

6  You say you had to pass the Ewell place to get to and from work.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 19

7  The idea was profound, but as usual, in Maycomb it didn't work very well.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 26

8  Jem said it might work if I cried and flung a fit, being young and a girl.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23

9  It took a few minutes to work the candy into a comfortable wad inside my jaw.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23

10  Scout, simply by the nature of the work, every lawyer gets at least one case in his lifetime that affects him personally.

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

11  I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but thought if they were as tired as I, it wouldn't work.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 21

12  Mr. Link Deas eventually received the impression that Helen was coming to work each morning from the wrong direction, and dragged the reason out of her.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 27

13  Atticus did not drive a dump-truck for the county, he was not the sheriff, he did not farm, work in a garage, or do anything that could possibly arouse the admiration of anyone.

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

14  By late afternoon most of my traveling plans were complete; when Jem and I raced each other up the sidewalk to meet Atticus coming home from work, I didn't give him much of a race.

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

15  When Atticus went inside the house to retrieve a file he had forgotten to take to work that morning, Jem finally realized that he had been done in by the oldest lawyer's trick on record.

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

16  Jem, having survived Boo Radley, a mad dog and other terrors, had concluded that it was cowardly to stop at Miss Rachel's front steps and wait, and had decreed that we must run as far as the post office corner each evening to meet Atticus coming from work.

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

17  Dill was of the opinion that an appeal to Atticus's better nature might work: after all, we would starve if Mr. Ewell killed him, besides be raised exclusively by Aunt Alexandra, and we all knew the first thing she'd do before Atticus was under the ground good would be to fire Calpurnia.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23