BORED in Classic Quotes

1  And that, in time, becomes a bore.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

2  Dilcey was tall and bore herself erectly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

3  Scarlett bore their gaze with a wide-eyed childlike expression.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

4  You think her silly and stupid and her patriotic notions bore you.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX

5  A faint hot breeze that had sprung up bore the smell of smoke to her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

6  He bore the honor gravely and with no untoward conceit, as though it were only his due.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

7  Except for the messy business of nursing and the bore of bandage rolling, she did not care if the war lasted forever.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

8  Scarlett bore his remarks with silent dignity and, as time went by, she turned all her attention to him and his customers.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

9  It was as though he bore an impersonal contempt for everyone and everything in the South, the Confederacy in particular, and took no pains to conceal it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

10  Frank, Pitty and the servants bore her outbursts with maddening kindness, attributing her bad disposition to her pregnancy, never realizing the true cause.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

11  The hospitals were filled with dirty, bewhiskered, verminous men who smelled terribly and bore on their bodies wounds hideous enough to turn a Christian's stomach.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

12  As the carriage bore her down the red road toward the Wilkes plantation, Scarlett had a feeling of guilty pleasure that neither her mother nor Mammy was with the party.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

13  The women bore themselves like ladies and she knew they were ladies, though menial tasks were their daily lot and they didn't know where their next dress was coming from.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

14  But she carried the child through its time with a minimum of discomfort, bore him with little distress and recovered so quickly that Mammy told her privately it was downright common--ladies should suffer more.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

15  One wagon, ahead of the others, bore four stout negroes with axes to cut evergreens and drag down the vines, and the back of this wagon was piled high with napkin-covered hampers, split-oak baskets of lunch and a dozen watermelons.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

16  Then the hardwood floors had shone like glass, and overhead the chandelier with its hundreds of tiny prisms had caught and reflected every ray of the dozens of candles it bore, flinging them, like gleams from diamonds, flame and sapphire about the room.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

17  He went off pompously toward a group of chaperons in one corner, and just as the two girls had turned to each other to discuss the possibilities of the secret, two old gentlemen bore down on the booth, declaring in loud voices that they wanted ten miles of tatting.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX