HARSH in Classic Quotes

1  She entered the room and sat down on the bed that was glaring with harsh sunshine.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX

2  There were harsh lines of fatigue and urgency in his face but his tattered gray hat was off with a sweep.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

3  Her mind was tiredly trying to take in the harsh truth that he was leaving her here to face the Yankees alone.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

4  It annoyed her because it seemed foolish and also because some of the harsh criticism directed at him fell on her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

5  The sun blinded her, the hard boards of the wagon under her were harsh against her body, and a heavy weight lay across her legs.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

6  It was because she was so frightened and unsure of herself she was harsh lest others learn her inadequacies and refuse her authority.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

7  She could only stare over the banisters at him and watch his face change from harsh tenseness to a half-contemptuous, half-ingratiating smile.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

8  She saw too that the old aloof face of Ashley, the one she knew so well, had come back and it was wintry too, and harsh with hurt and remorse.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

9  In that night and the day which followed, he had been slapped by his mother for the first time and had heard her voice raised at him in harsh words.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

10  Suddenly Scarlett shivered and saw, as if coming back from a long journey, that it was winter and the fields were bare and harsh with stubble and she was very cold.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

11  Any unexpected noise or sharp word set him to trembling, for in his mind noises and harsh words were inextricably mixed with Yankees and he was more afraid of Yankees than of Prissy's hants.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

12  A deep silence fell on the crowd, so deep that the harsh whisper of the wind in the magnolia leaves came clear to their ears and the far-off repetitious note of a mockingbird sounded unendurably loud and sad.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL

13  True to the tradition in which they had been reared, the men were courteous and tender and they almost succeeded in creating an atmosphere of sheltering their women from all that was harsh and unfit for feminine eyes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

14  For a timeless time, she lay still, her face in the dirt, the sun beating hotly upon her, remembering things and people who were dead, remembering a way of living that was gone forever--and looking upon the harsh vista of the dark future.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

15  Never again would she wake in the dark nights, holding her breath to listen, wondering if it were reality or only a dream that she heard in the yard the rattle of bits, the stamping of hooves and the harsh crying of orders by the Yankees.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX

16  There would be long warm afternoons when ladies would call and, amid the rustlings of taffeta petticoats and the rhythmic harsh cracklings of palmetto fans, she would serve tea and delicious sandwiches and cakes and leisurely gossip the hours away.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII

17  As the harsh rapid knocking sounded at the door, she looked at Melanie and saw come over the small, strained face a new expression, an expression as blank as she had just seen on Rhett Butler's face, the bland blank look of a poker player bluffing a game with only two deuces.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV