ACHING in Classic Quotes

1  No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIII

2  Scarlett with an effort lifted her head on her aching neck.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

3  Stiffly, Scarlett climbed down from the seat, each movement of agony of aching muscles.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

4  Yes, she was sick of the hospital, the foul smells, the lice, the aching, unwashed bodies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

5  She strained forward trying to hear and soon she found her muscles aching from the tension.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

6  She pushed a small cushion behind her aching back and thought hungrily of a daughter of her own.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER L

7  Scarlett leaned her head against the wall, like a naughty child in a corner, and rubbed her aching throat.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXI

8  Her head ached from the heat and she could feel her basque, soaking wet from perspiration, sticking to her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

9  Finally the pallbearers set the coffin down near the grave and stood clenching and unclenching their aching fingers.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL

10  So she had unharnessed him and crawled, sodden with fatigue, into the back of the wagon and stretched her aching legs.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

11  She raised an aching head, looked at him with startled incredulity and met the pleading eyes of Mammy, who stood behind Gerald's chair.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

12  She gripped the reins tighter with hands that were blistered and slapped them fiercely on the horse's back, her aching arms burning at the movement.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

13  She would gladly have another child, several children, if they would take that look out of Rhett's eyes and fill up the aching spaces in her own heart.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LX

14  Dilcey worked tirelessly, silently, like a machine, and Scarlett, with her back aching and her shoulder raw from the tugging weight of the cotton bag she carried, thought that Dilcey was worth her weight in gold.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

15  When she came home in the late afternoons, damp from the rain, cramped and aching from long hours in the buggy, nothing sustained her except the thought of the bottle hidden in her top bureau drawer, locked against Mammy's prying eyes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

16  She was hungry and dry with thirst, aching and cramped and filled with wonder that she, Scarlett O'Hara, who could never rest well except between linen sheets and on the softest of feather beds, had slept like a field hand on hard planks.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

17  Flies, mosquitoes and gnats hovered in droning, singing swarms over the wards, tormenting the men to curses and weak sobs; and Scarlett, scratching her own mosquito bites, swung palmetto fans until her shoulders ached and she wished that all the men were dead.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII