SMOKING in Classic Quotes

1  Perhaps Atticus was right, but the events of the summer hung over us like smoke in a closed room.

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

2  Miss Maudie was staring at the smoking black hole in her yard, and Atticus shook his head to tell us she did not want to talk.

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

3  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

4  In the frosty December dusk, their cabins looked neat and snug with pale blue smoke rising from the chimneys and doorways glowing amber from the fires inside.

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

5  He permitted smoking in his courtroom but did not himself indulge: sometimes, if one was lucky, one had the privilege of watching him put a long dry cigar into his mouth and munch it slowly up.

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

6  When Uncle Jack caught me, he kept me laughing about a preacher who hated going to church so much that every day he stood at his gate in his dressing-gown, smoking a hookah and delivering five-minute sermons to any passers-by who desired spiritual comfort.

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

7  Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.

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