ACTIVE in Classic Quotes

1  He just isn't up to active service, Scarlett.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

2  Scarlett had no shame at all, only an active feeling of relief.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

3  She had missed the importance and activity of her lumber business while she was immured.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LI

4  Now he was gone and she was married to a man she not only did not love but for whom she had an active contempt.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

5  She was driven by a conscience which, though long suppressed, could still rise up, an active Catholic conscience.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LV

6  The mills had been losing money ever since she retired from active supervision, leaving Hugh and Ashley in charge.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI

7  From the Leyden house down to Five Points, the street seethed with activity, the activity of an anthill just destroyed.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

8  Added to her terror of being blown to pieces was her equally active terror that Melanie's baby might arrive at any moment.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX

9  Then, I fear, we will become like the Yankees, at whose money-making activities, acquisitiveness and commercialism we now sneer.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

10  Her thoughts and activities were the same as they had been in the old days, but the field of her activities had widened immensely.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

11  He had no knowledge of the dawn-till-midnight activities of these women, chained to supervision of cooking, nursing, sewing and laundering.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

12  On top of everything else, she was actually making money out of the mill, and no man could feel right about a wife who succeeded in so unwomanly an activity.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

13  They were a ragged and ruffianly appearing crew, mounted on lame and heaving horses which obviously were in too bad condition to be used for more active service.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

14  In addition to the Carpetbag gentry, substantial people from the North were moving into Atlanta, attracted by the never ceasing business activity of the town in this period of rebuilding and expansion.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

15  But they treated her deferentially, as if she were old and finished, and their constant chatter of dances and beaux made her both envious of their pleasures and resentful that her widowhood barred her from such activities.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

16  For years, the O'Haras had been in bad odor with the English constabulary on account of suspected activities against the government, and Gerald was not the first O'Hara to take his foot in his hand and quit Ireland between dawn and morning.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

17  He was as proficient as any of the other young men in the usual County diversions, hunting, gambling, dancing and politics, and was the best rider of them all; but he differed from all the rest in that these pleasant activities were not the end and aim of life to him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II