WOODS in Classic Quotes

1  But she couldn't take Melanie to the woods.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

2  They were charred spirals of what appeared to be wood.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

3  Everybody except the Yankees goes out and collects his own kindling wood.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

4  My brother-in-law, Hugh Elsing, isn't doing any too well peddling kindling wood.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

5  Suddenly it seemed odd that he should be sitting there occupying himself with a piece of wood.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV

6  Beyond it, Peachtree road narrowed and twisted under great trees out of sight into thick quiet woods.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

7  Even if you didn't run into the Yankees, the woods are full of stragglers and deserters from both armies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

8  The dim shapes of houses grew farther and farther apart and unbroken woods loomed wall-like on either side.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

9  The sun was low across the new-plowed fields and the tall woods across the river were looming blackly in silhouette.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

10  There was a chill wind blowing, and as she passed there came to her nose the mingled smells of wood smoke, frying pork and untended privies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIV

11  Archie sat on a stool by the hearth, his back against the fireplace, his cheek distended with tobacco, whittling industriously on a bit of wood.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV

12  Even as she leaned from the window there was a fearful sound of splintering wood, a hoarse cry from Rhett, a melee of blue velvet and flying hooves on the ground.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIX

13  And, my dear, they stayed out nearly all night and walked home finally, saying the horse had run away and smashed the buggy and they had gotten lost in the woods.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

14  It was almost out of her reach and she jerked at it so impatiently the nails came out of the wood, and the curtains, pole and all, fell to the floor with a clatter.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII

15  The trains are crowded and uncertain and the passengers are liable to be put off in the woods at any time, if the trains are needed for the wounded or troops and supplies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

16  They were on their way to the entrenchments that ringed the town--no shallow, hastily dug trenches, these, but earthworks, breast high, reinforced with sandbags and tipped with sharpened staves of wood.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

17  Names of graves where friends lay buried, names of tangled underbrush and thick woods where bodies rotted unburied, names of the four sides of Atlanta where Sherman had tried to force his army in and Hood's men had doggedly beaten him back.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX