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1  The bed was tumbled and unmade and he sat on it, unshaven and suddenly gaunt, endlessly smoking.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LVI
2  Mammy cried silently as she sponged the gaunt bodies, using the remnant of an old apron as a cloth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
3  He was tall and gaunt and wore a pointed beard of iron gray, and his clothes hung on his spare figure as though blown there by a hurricane.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Every empty, shell-pitted house they had passed that day, every gaunt chimney standing sentinel over smoke-blackened ruins, had frightened her more.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  High up on the plateau at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains, she saw rolling red hills wherever she looked, with huge outcroppings of the underlying granite and gaunt pines towering somberly everywhere.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
6  Most of them were walking, a few fortunate ones rode bony horses and mules which the terms of the surrender had permitted them to keep, gaunt animals which even an untrained eye could tell would never reach far-away Florida and south Georgia.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX
7  Had Ashley yielded, she could have gone away with him and left family and friends without a backward look but, even in her emptiness, she knew it would have torn her heart to leave these dear red hills and long washed gullies and gaunt black pines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
8  She spoke of the wild darkness of the night, the blazing camp fires which might be friends or foes, the gaunt chimneys which met her gaze in the morning sun, the dead men and horses along the road, the hunger, the desolation, the fear that Tara had been burned.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
9  The house servants shuffled and rustled in the hall to kneel by the doorway, Mammy groaning aloud as she sank down, Pork straight as a ramrod, Rosa and Teena, the maids, graceful in their spreading bright calicoes, Cookie gaunt and yellow beneath her snowy head rag, and Jack, stupid with sleep, as far away from Mammy's pinching fingers as possible.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV