DESOLATE in Classic Quotes

1  She was back at Tara again and Tara was desolate.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII

2  She should be desolate, broken hearted, ready to scream at fate.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXI

3  This desolation went to her heart as nothing she had ever experienced.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

4  The door closed behind them, leaving Scarlett open mouthed and suddenly desolate.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

5  Soon it would be night and they would be alone in this desolation that was death.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

6  Melanie did not know there was no home and that they were alone in a mad and desolate world.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

7  A pagan hearing the lapping of the waters around Charon's boat could not have felt more desolate.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

8  But for the most part the sunny valley was abandoned and desolate and the untended crops stood in parching fields.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

9  The noise cracked like a whip in the still room and suddenly her rage was gone, and there was desolation in her heart.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

10  He felt aggrieved, moreover, that Scarlett should still look desolate after being offered the best of the County boys and Tara, too.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

11  But since the day she had lain sick and desolate in the garden at Twelve Oaks and said: "I won't look back," she had set her face against the past.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIII

12  While his low resonant voice went on, desolate, with a feeling she could not understand, Scarlett clutched at words here and there, trying to make sense of them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

13  She half-grasped what was in Rhett's mind as he said farewell to the only person in the world he respected and she was desolate again with a terrible sense of loss that was no longer personal.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXIII

14  Through the window, in the faint light of the rising moon, Tara stretched before her, negroes gone, acres desolate, barns ruined, like a body bleeding under her eyes, like her own body, slowly bleeding.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

15  Suddenly she was standing at Tara again with the world about her ears, desolate with the knowledge that she could not face life without the terrible strength of the weak, the gentle, the tender hearted.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXI

16  To Scarlett, the stillness at Tara was unbearable, for it reminded her too sharply of the deathlike stillness of the desolate country through which she had passed that long day on her way home from Atlanta.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

17  But the small cloud which appeared in the northwest four months ago had blown up into a mighty storm and then into a screaming tornado, sweeping away her world, whirling her out of her sheltered life, and dropping her down in the midst of this still, haunted desolation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV