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1  They put their own grief into the background in order to divert her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
2  And everywhere amid the greenery, on flags and bunting, blazed the bright stars of the Confederacy on their background of red and blue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX
3  The ever-present war in the background lent a pleasant informality to social relations, an informality which older people viewed with alarm.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII
4  The door opened quickly and Mammy, shrinking back into the shadows of the hall, saw Rhett huge and dark against the blazing background of candles.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIX
5  For an instant Scarlett envisaged her trip to Atlanta and her conversation with Rhett with Mammy glowering chaperonage like a large black Cerberus in the background.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
6  Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees that were solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
7  These people, drawn from many different places and with many different backgrounds, gave the whole life of the County an informality that was new to Ellen, an informality to which she never quite accustomed herself.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
8  And even as she had realized earlier in the evening that Melanie bad been beside her in her bitter campaigns against life, now she knew that silent in the background, Rhett had stood, loving her, understanding her, ready to help.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXII
9  Some of the cold sense of bewilderment and disaster that had weighted her down since the Tarleton boys told her their gossip was pushed into the background of her mind, and in its place crept the fever that had possessed her for two years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II