FLOATING in Classic Quotes

1  There's a rumor floating about to that effect.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

2  It had been a gay beautiful place and now--there was a large United States flag floating over it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

3  There was a truce in the kitchen and no sound of quarreling from Peter, Mammy and Cookie floated up to her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVII

4  Then, wheels ground sharply on the graveled driveway, and the soft murmur of Ellen's voice dismissing the coachman floated into the room.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

5  Upstairs they were ripping open mattresses and feather beds until the air in the hall was thick with feathers that floated softly down on her head.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII

6  All night long pianos jangled from behind drawn shades and rowdy songs and laughter floated out, punctuated by occasional screams and pistol shots.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII

7  From within the house floated the soft voice of Scarlett's mother, Ellen O'Hara, as she called to the little black girl who carried her basket of keys.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

8  She only knew she had left her tired body and floated somewhere above it where there was no pain and weariness and her brain saw things with an inhuman clarity.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

9  Then he walked across the lawn with John Wilkes, his black head in the air, and the sound of his discomforting laughter floated back to the group about the tables.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

10  She thought of Tara and remembered Jonas Wilkerson, venomous as a rattler, at the foot of the front steps, and she grasped at the last straw floating above the shipwreck of her life.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

11  The dusty red road was empty and lifeless, and the only sounds in the village were a few whoops and drunken laughs that floated on the still twilight air from a saloon far down the street.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX

12  All the houses across the street were dark except one, and the light from a lamp in the window, falling into the street, struggled feebly with the fog, golden particles floating in its rays.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXII

13  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

14  At a distance great enough to keep the smoke away from the guests were the long pits where the meats cooked and the huge iron wash-pots from which the succulent odors of barbecue sauce and Brunswick stew floated.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

15  There were no trees to cast a shade and the sun beat down through Mammy's sunbonnet as if it were made of tarlatan instead of heavy quilted calico, while the dust floating upward sifted into her nose and throat until she felt the membranes would crack dryly if she spoke.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

16  She looked hungrily at the frocks floating by, butter-yellow watered silks with garlands of rosebuds; pink satins with eighteen flounces edged with tiny black velvet ribbons; baby blue taffeta, ten yards in the skirt and foamy with cascading lace; exposed bosoms; seductive flowers.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

17  Then, as if brought into being by the waltz music, sounds floated in from the shadowy moonlit street below, the trample of horses' hooves and the sound of carriage wheels, laughter on the warm sweet air and the soft acrimony of negro voices raised in argument over hitching places for the horses.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX