DEATH in Classic Quotes

1  To her, it meant groans, delirium, death and smells.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

2  Whenever we're there she always looks scared to death.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

3  They all waited to hear the news that death had come to their homes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

4  He just looks at me and I--I'm scared to death of what he would do if I told him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

5  And that is why I'm here who have no love of death or misery or glory and no hatred for anyone.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

6  Miss Hope, death in her face, sat erect beside her, holding her sister's skirt in a tight grasp.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

7  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

8  Scarlett was back again where she had been before she married Charles and it was as if she had never married him, never felt the shock of his death, never borne Wade.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

9  The good ladies of the hospital committee, whose cool hands have soothed many a suffering brow and brought back from the jaws of death our brave men wounded in the bravest of all Causes, know our needs.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

10  The few who came to them talked about how they went to the university with Ashley and what a fine soldier he was or spoke in respectful tones of Charles and how great a loss to Atlanta his death had been.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

11  So the women swished their silks and laughed and, looking on their men with hearts bursting with pride, they knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excitement that went with it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

12  Carreen, sitting on a hassock under the big lamp, was deep in the romance of a girl who had taken the veil after her lover's death and, with silent tears of enjoyment oozing from her eyes, was pleasurably picturing herself in a white coif.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

13  There was no Orangeman this side of hell worth a hundred pounds to the British government or to the devil himself; but if the government felt so strongly about the death of an English absentee landlord's rent agent, it was time for Gerald O'Hara to be leaving and leaving suddenly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

14  But when the news trickled back that Lee had issued orders that no private property in Pennsylvania should be touched, that looting would be punished by death and that the army would pay for every article it requisitioned--then it needed all the reverence the General had earned to save his popularity.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

15  Despite privation and hardships, despite food speculators and kindred scourges, despite death and sickness and suffering which had now left their mark on nearly every family, the South was again saying "One more victory and the war is over," saying it with even more happy assurance than in the summer before.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

16  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 Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

17  With foreboding, Mammy had brought her young mistress a small package, addressed in a strange hand from New Orleans, a package containing a miniature of Ellen, which she flung to the floor with a cry, four letters in her own handwriting to Philippe Robillard, and a brief letter from a New Orleans priest, announcing the death of her cousin in a barroom brawl.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III