PLAY in Classic Quotes

1  They're no things to play with.

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

2  Can't everybody play a Jew's Harp.

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

3  "I know what we are going to play," he announced.

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

4  I reluctantly played assorted ladies who entered the script.

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

5  Safely in the yard, Dill asked Jem if we could play any more.

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

6  "Coach says if I can gain twenty-five pounds by year after next I can play," he said.

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

7  By the end of October, our lives had become the familiar routine of school, play, study.

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

8  Jem and I found our father satisfactory: he played with us, read to us, and treated us with courteous detachment.

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

9  He did not do the things our schoolmates' fathers did: he never went hunting, he did not play poker or fish or drink or smoke.

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

10  When it healed, and Jem's fears of never being able to play football were assuaged, he was seldom self-conscious about his injury.

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

11  We polished and perfected it, added dialogue and plot until we had manufactured a small play upon which we rang changes every day.

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

12  He remembered her clearly, and sometimes in the middle of a game he would sigh at length, then go off and play by himself behind the car-house.

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

13  Early one morning as we were beginning our day's play in the back yard, Jem and I heard something next door in Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch.

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

14  When it was time to play Boo's big scene, Jem would sneak into the house, steal the scissors from the sewing-machine drawer when Calpurnia's back was turned, then sit in the swing and cut up newspapers.

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

15  I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

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

16  As the county went by us, Jem gave Dill the histories and general attitudes of the more prominent figures: Mr. Tensaw Jones voted the straight Prohibition ticket; Miss Emily Davis dipped snuff in private; Mr. Byron Waller could play the violin; Mr. Jake Slade was cutting his third set of teeth.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 16

17  Our tacit treaty with Miss Maudie was that we could play on her lawn, eat her scuppernongs if we didn't jump on the arbor, and explore her vast back lot, terms so generous we seldom spoke to her, so careful were we to preserve the delicate balance of our relationship, but Jem and Dill drove me closer to her with their behavior.

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