CAPTURE in Classic Quotes

1  Your train might even be captured.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

2  These men hoped to equip themselves from killed and captured Yankees.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

3  Their capture would paralyze the North and more than cancel off the defeat on the Mississippi.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

4  When "Missing--believed captured" appeared on the casualty lists, joy and hope reanimated the sad household.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI

5  It had taken them a week to capture the pigs, one by one, and now after two weeks the sow was still at liberty.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

6  He had conducted the retreat in masterly fashion, for they had lost few men and the Yankees killed and captured ran high.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

7  But now with the ports closed and many of the port cities captured or besieged, the South's salvation depended upon itself.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI

8  Chancellorsville might be a more important victory but the capture of Streight's raiders made the Yankees positively ridiculous.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

9  That had been the situation ever since the news of Ashley Wilkes' capture, though the connection between the two events did not occur to him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

10  I am not afraid of danger or capture or wounds or even death, if death must come, but I do fear that once this war is over, we will never get back to the old times.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

11  On the day after the change in command, the Yankee general struck swiftly at the little town of Decatur, six miles beyond Atlanta, captured it and cut the railroad there.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

12  Even butternut was now none too plentiful, and many of the soldiers were dressed in captured Yankee uniforms which had been turned a dark-brown color with walnut-shell dye.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

13  About the blue cloth, when it comes to a choice between having holes in your britches or patching them with pieces of a captured Yankee uniform--well, there just isn't any choice.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

14  Carey Ashburn had brought a little tea, which he had found in the tobacco pouch of a captured Yankee en route to Andersonville, and everyone had a cup, faintly flavored with tobacco.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

15  Yankee families of wealth sent young sons to the South to pioneer on the new frontier, and Yankee officers after their discharge took up permanent residence in the town they had fought so hard to capture.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

16  If the capture of Georgia by Sherman had caused bitterness, the final capture of the state's capitol by the Carpetbaggers, Yankees and negroes caused an intensity of bitterness such as the state had never known before.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVII

17  Suppose the Yankees should capture the train on which Wade and Prissy were riding--Scarlett and Melanie turned pale at the thought, for everyone knew that Yankee atrocities on helpless children were even more dreadful than on women.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX