HUSBAND in Classic Quotes

1  My husband wasn't afraid to go and neither was yours.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

2  "My husband is in Virginia," said Melly with a proud lift of her head.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

3  No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don't you be forgetting that.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

4  Mrs. Whiting's cousin, Mrs. Coleman, whose husband came from Charleston, told me about him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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5  Ellen's tired mouth smiled into the tumult as she addressed herself first to her husband, as a wife should.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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6  But it gave Gerald pleasure to air his views, and Ellen was unfailingly thoughtful of her husband's pleasure.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

7  Oh, it wasn't fair that she should have a dead husband and a baby yelling in the next room and be out of everything that was pleasant.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

8  The chaperons' corner was in tumult and Mrs. Meade, anxious to support her husband in an action of which she heartily disapproved, was at a disadvantage.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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9  And should a gentleman be so ill bred as to indicate an interest in her, she must freeze him with a dignified but well-chosen reference to her dead husband.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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10  So, Ellen, no longer Robillard, turned her back on Savannah, never to see it again, and with a middle-aged husband, Mammy, and twenty "house niggers" journeyed toward Tara.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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11  She was seventeen years old and she had a husband lying at Oakland Cemetery and a baby in his cradle at Aunt Pittypat's and everyone thought she should be content with her lot.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

12  She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

13  But, when Mrs. Wilkes, "a great lady and with a rare gift for silence," as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down the driveway.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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14  It was a voice never raised in command to a servant or reproof to a child but a voice that was obeyed instantly at Tara, where her husband's blustering and roaring were quietly disregarded.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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15  Aunt Pauline and her husband, a little old man, with a formal, brittle courtesy and the absent air of one living in an older age, lived on a plantation on the river, far more isolated than Tara.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

16  James and Andrew might have some advice to offer on this subject of marriage, and there might be daughters among their old friends who would both meet his requirements and find him acceptable as a husband.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

17  The same look was on the faces of all the women as the song ended, tears of pride on cheeks, pink or wrinkled, smiles on lips, a deep hot glow in eyes, as they turned to their men, sweetheart to lover, mother to son, wife to husband.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX