BIRTHING in Classic Quotes

1  There would be no more matings and births beneath this roof which she had so loved and longed to rule.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

2  Though she recovered physically from Wade's birth in a disgracefully short time, mentally she was dazed and sick.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

3  Melanie came out of Scarlett's room, weary from the strain but happy to tears at the birth of Scarlett's daughter.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER L

4  She had been crawling with fear, rotten with fear, terrified by the Yankees, terrified by the approaching birth of Beau.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII

5  It all came back to her, the sickeningly hot day of the baby's birth, the agony of fear, the flight and Rhett's desertion.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

6  Melanie hotly defended him, saying that anyone who had Will's kind heart and thoughtfulness of others was of gentle birth.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX

7  Little Beau had cost her her health, and the hard work she had done at Tara since his birth had taken further toll of her strength.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI

8  Often when newly married couples went on the usual round of honeymoon visits, they lingered in some pleasant home until the birth of their second child.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

9  In the nine years before Scarlett was born, the town had been called, first, Terminus and then Marthasville, and not until the year of Scarlett's birth had it become Atlanta.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

10  As always, she wondered how her loud, insensitive father had managed to marry a woman like her mother, for never were two people further apart in birth, breeding and habits of mind.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

11  Scarlett had cast her lot with the enemy and, whatever her birth and family connections, she was now in the category of a turncoat, a nigger lover, a traitor, a Republican-- and a Scallawag.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

12  Everyone was very polite and kind to her because he felt sorry for her, but no one could forget that she had compounded her initial error of birth by being the governess of Mr. Calvert's children.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

13  The healthy vigor which had carried her through the hard days at Tara stood her in good stead now, and within two weeks of Ella Lorena's birth she was strong enough to sit up and chafe at her inactivity.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII

14  Aunt Pitty had her share, although she protested that it was most unbecoming to have strange men in the house when Melanie was in a delicate condition and when gruesome sights might bring on premature birth.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

15  This then was the answer to the riddle of Archie, his unwillingness to tell his last name or the place of his birth or any scrap of his past life, the answer to the difficulty with which he spoke and his cold hatred of the world.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII

16  In the mornings, after all-night sessions at births and deaths, when old Dr. Fontaine and young Dr. Fontaine were both out on calls and could not be found to help her, Ellen presided at the breakfast table as usual, her dark eyes circled with weariness but her voice and manner revealing none of the strain.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

17  Scarlett, whose room lay across the hall from her mother's, knew from babyhood the soft sound of scurrying bare black feet on the hardwood floor in the hours of dawn, the urgent tappings on her mother's door, and the muffled, frightened negro voices that whispered of sickness and birth and death in the long row of whitewashed cabins in the quarters.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III