1 Watching Mattie whirl down the floor from hand to hand he wondered how he could ever have thought that his dull talk interested her.
2 They had the vigor and alertness of country people who have spent all their lives in the open and troubled their heads very little with dull things in books.
3 If her visit proved as dull as those in Savannah and Charleston, she would return home in a month.
4 When she thought of the dull times of the past year, with the days going by one very much like another, life seemed to have quickened to an incredible speed.
5 But she clung to her dull black dresses and her veil, knowing that if she changed them for colors without waiting several more years, the town would buzz even more than it was already buzzing.
6 It was a beautiful piece of material, thick and warm and with a dull sheen to it, undoubtedly blockade goods and undoubtedly very expensive.
7 Through it all, the dull far-off thundering persisted, rolling into her ears in waves of fear.
8 The night was drenched in warm soft darkness and she lay staring into it, dull as an ox.
9 The dark sky became pink and then dull red, and suddenly above the trees, she saw a huge tongue of flame leap high to the heavens.
10 She drank slowly but this time the liquid did not burn, only a dull warmth followed.
11 Scarlett stood with her hand on the horse's bridle, a dull feeling at her heart.
12 In the dull twilight of the winter afternoon she came to the end of the long road which had begun the night Atlanta fell.
13 There were the remains of a few buildings she remembered, roofless brick walls through which the dull daylight shone, glassless windows gaping, chimneys towering lonesomely.
14 It was raining when she came out of the building and the sky was a dull putty color.
15 Its flickering light showed how irreparably scarred and splintered the dull old floor was.