CARELESS in Classic Quotes

1  He should be offhand and careless, as other men were.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER L

2  Heretofore she had been careless of public opinion, careless and a little contemptuous.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

3  Spoiled, careless Scarlett who had never known an ungratified wish except where Ashley was concerned.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX

4  Their eyes were always alert, like men who have lived too long with danger to be ever quite careless.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII

5  More than anything in the world she yearned to hear the sound of hooves and to see Rhett's careless, self-confident eyes laughing at her fears.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

6  She was soon released from the bonds she had assumed with so much haste and so little thought, but she was never again to know the careless freedom of her unmarried days.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

7  There was a great cloud of red dust coming up the street and from the cloud came the sound of the tramping of many feet and a hundred or more negro voices, deep throated, careless, singing a hymn.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

8  For Ashley, spring was back again, that half- forgotten balmy spring of green rustlings and murmurings, a spring of ease and indolence, careless days when the desires of youth were warm in his body.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

9  To the ears of the three on the porch came the sounds of hooves, the jingling of harness chains and the shrill careless laughter of negro voices, as the field hands and mules came in from the fields.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

10  He arranged his face in what he fancied was an expression of careless unconcern and cautiously returned Scarlett's pinch to show that he was man of the world enough to understand and accept her reproof.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

11  Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

12  The people of the Coast which she had left might pride themselves on taking all their affairs, even their duels and their feuds, with a careless air but these north Georgia people had a streak of violence in them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

13  Usually he was so kind and treated her with a careless deference that made her feel grown up, and Carreen secretly dreamed of the day when she would put her hair up and her skirts down and receive him as a real beau.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

14  Johnston's veterans, however, went by with the tireless, careless step which had carried them for three years, and they still had the energy to grin and wave at pretty girls and to call rude gibes to men not in uniform.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

15  Her indignant and hopeless reverie was broken when the crowd began pushing back against the walls, the ladies carefully holding their hoops so that no careless contact should turn them up against their bodies and show more pantalets than was proper.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

16  He liked the casual grace with which they conducted affairs of importance, risking a fortune, a plantation or a slave on the turn of a card and writing off their losses with careless good humor and no more ado than when they scattered pennies to pickaninnies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

17  Now Ashley was going away, back to Virginia, back to the long marches in the sleet, to hungry bivouacs in the snow, to pain and hardship and to the risk of all the bright beauty of his golden head and proud slender body being blotted out in an instant, like an ant beneath a careless heel.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV