CURVE in Classic Quotes

1  Her eyes were dry and there was dignity in every curve.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXI

2  In place of the curved sofa she had liked so much was a hard bench that was none too comfortable.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

3  He smiled in his old way, one corner of his mouth curving down, but she knew he was complimenting her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

4  The wide curving driveway was full of saddle horses and carriages and guests alighting and calling greetings to friends.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

5  He looked at the slanting green eyes, wide and misty, and the tender curve of her lips and for a moment his breath stopped.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVII

6  Wealth came out of the curving furrows, and arrogance came too--arrogance built on green bushes and the acres of fleecy white.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

7  When they had rounded the curve of the dusty road that hid them from Tara, Brent drew his horse to a stop under a clump of dogwood.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

8  Sherman inexorably advanced, step by step, swinging his army about them in a wide curve, forcing another retreat to defend the railroad at their back.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

9  She loved Ashley and she knew she loved him and she had never cared so much as in that instant when she saw Charles disappearing around the curved graveled walk.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

10  Soon she was at the end of the driveway and out on the main road, but she did not stop until she had rounded a curve that put a large clump of trees between her and the house.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

11  From Big Shanty, the weary sleepless lines retreated down the road to Kennesaw Mountain, near the little town of Marietta, and here they spread their lines in a ten-mile curve.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

12  There were bright tears on Melanie's lashes and understanding in her eyes, and before them, Cathleen's lips curved into the crooked smile of a brave child who tries not to cry.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX

13  She knew him for what he was and she never trusted him, but her spirits always rose with pleasure at the sight of him riding around the curve of a shady road on his big black horse.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

14  The muddy Flint River, running silently between walls of pine and water oak covered with tangled vines, wrapped about Gerald's new land like a curving arm and embraced it on two sides.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

15  The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

16  She saw her staggering, heard her coughing, caught a lightning-flash glimpse of her set white face and eyes narrow to slits against the smoke, saw her small body curving back and forth as she swung her rug up and down.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII

17  Sometimes when Scarlett tiptoed at night to kiss her tall mother's cheek, she looked up at the mouth with its too short, too tender upper lip, a mouth too easily hurt by the world, and wondered if it had ever curved in silly girlish giggling or whispered secrets through long nights to intimate girl friends.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III