ABRUPT in Classic Quotes

1  Grandma rose abruptly and took Scarlett by the arm.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

2  Ashley said good night abruptly, and he did not meet Scarlett's eyes either.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

3  As the hot noisy days of August were drawing to a close the bombardment abruptly ceased.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX

4  She opened her mouth to tell him why Mrs. Meade could not come and then shut it abruptly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

5  Melanie said nothing but abruptly sat down on the floor and leaned back against the wall.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

6  But he drew rein abruptly, almost at Marietta Street, in the shadow of a warehouse not yet touched by the flames.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

7  For an eternity, it seemed, they were in the midst of flaming torment and then abruptly they were in semidarkness again.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

8  Not that India ever reproached him or even indicated by look or gesture that she was aware of his abruptly changed allegiance.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

9  Startled at the abrupt switching from the eulogy to herself, Scarlett went red with embarrassment as all eyes turned toward her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL

10  He stepped abruptly down from the wagon and, as she watched him, stunned with bewilderment, he came around to her side of the wagon.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

11  Scarlett came abruptly out of her dream of delight, for she had neglected to make the responses and her mother was looking at her reprovingly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

12  Her bowing and waving were abruptly halted when Pittypat entered the room, panting as usual from climbing the stairs, and jerked her away from the window unceremoniously.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

13  Rhett turned the horse's slow feet westward from Peachtree and the wobbling wagon jounced into the rutty lane with a violence that wrenched an abruptly stifled moan from Melanie.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

14  "Mrs. Bonnell's children have the measles," said Mrs. Merriwether abruptly, showing plainly that she held Mrs. Bonnell personally responsible for permitting such a thing to happen.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

15  She disliked Melanie with a jealous dislike that grew as the days went by, and sometimes she had to leave the room abruptly when Melanie, beaming with loving pride, spoke of Ashley or read his letters aloud.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

16  She raised the glass and bolted the contents with one abrupt motion of her arm, wrist stiff, just as Gerald had always taken his neat whisky, bolted it before she thought how practiced and unbecoming it looked.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIV

17  There was something breathtaking in the grace of his big body which made his very entrance into a room like an abrupt physical impact, something in the impertinence and bland mockery of his dark eyes that challenged her spirit to subdue him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII