CROWDS in Classic Quotes

1  They were oddly still crowds, crowds that quietly grew larger and larger.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

2  There were crowds of people in the depot or she would never have invited this caress.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LVII

3  Then somehow she would maneuver to get a few minutes alone with him, away from the crowd.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

4  There were crowds in front of every other counter but theirs, girls chattering, men buying.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

5  She hated to sit amid crowds of women who were secretly wondering if she had been actually taken in adultery.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LV

6  But that would mean she would hardly ever see Ashley, except in a formal social way with crowds of people around.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LI

7  "I must run upstairs and smooth my hair," she told Stuart and Brent, who were trying to get her cornered from the crowd.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

8  As she descended from the carriage, she saw Suellen smirk and knew that she must have picked out Frank Kennedy in the crowd.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

9  As the artillery rumbled by, splashing mud into the watching crowds, a negro on a mule, riding close to a cannon caught her eye.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

10  Scarlett's eyes searched the crowd for Ashley, even while she made pleasant small talk with John Wilkes, but he was not on the porch.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

11  As her eyes wandered from Melanie, she caught the gaze of Rhett Butler, who was not mixing with the crowd but standing apart talking to John Wilkes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

12  The house seemed bursting with the crowd, and a ceaseless babble of talking and laughter and giggles and shrill feminine squeaks and screams rose and fell.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

13  Atlanta, with its noises, its new buildings, its strange faces, its narrow streets crowded with horses and wagons and bustling crowds sometimes seemed to stifle her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

14  She pushed her way swiftly through the crowds, past the packed, hysterical mob surging in the open space of Five Points, and hurried as fast as she could down the short block toward the depot.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

15  Occasionally when the slight breeze veered, puffs of smoke from the long barbecue pits floated over the crowd and were greeted with squeals of mock dismay from the ladies and violent flappings of palmetto fans.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

16  Now, in the anxious quiet, crowds stormed General Hood's headquarters demanding information, crowds massed about the telegraph office and the depot hoping for tidings, good tidings, for everyone hoped that the silence of Sherman's cannon meant that the Yankees were in full retreat and the Confederates chasing them back up the road to Dalton.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX

17  Atlanta, with its crowds and its hurry and its undercurrent of driving excitement, was very pleasant, very exhilarating, so very much nicer than the lonely plantation out from Charleston, where the bellow of alligators broke the night stillness; better than Charleston itself, dreaming in its gardens behind its high walls; better than Savannah with its wide streets lined with palmetto and the muddy river beside it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII