NIGHT in Classic Quotes

1  So it's to be announced tomorrow night at the supper intermission.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

2  Mother, the lace is loose on my new ball dress and I want to wear it tomorrow night at Twelve Oaks.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

3  I gives you a good night, said Dilcey and, turning, left the room with her child, Pork dancing attendance.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

4  Yes, it was good to creep back into bed and know that Ellen was abroad in the night and everything was right.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

5  The laughter and talking rose and fell in the dark night air, pleasant, homely, carefree sounds, gutturally soft, musically shrill.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

6  It was in a saloon in Savannah, on a hot night in spring, when the chance conversation of a stranger sitting near by made Gerald prick up his ears.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

7  Just because we've been away and didn't know about the barbecue and the ball, that's no reason why we shouldn't get plenty of dances tomorrow night.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

8  She had never seen her mother stirred from her austere placidity, nor her personal appointments anything but perfect, no matter what the hour of day or night.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

9  As the night wore on and the drinks went round, there came a time when all the others in the game laid down their hands and Gerald and the stranger were battling alone.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

10  Our cook is the broad wife of the Wilkes butler, and he was over last night with the news that the engagement would be announced tonight and Cookie told us this morning.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

11  Then he lay awake at night thinking of all the charming gallantries he might have employed; but he rarely got a second chance, for the girls left him alone after a trial or two.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

12  Dilcey was head woman and midwife at Twelve Oaks, and, since the marriage six months ago, Pork had deviled his master night and day to buy Dilcey, so the two could live on the same plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

13  That night at supper, Scarlett went through the motions of presiding over the table in her mother's absence, but her mind was in a ferment over the dreadful news she had heard about Ashley and Melanie.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

14  The barbecue pits, which had been slowly burning since last night, would now be long troughs of rose-red embers, with the meats turning on spits above them and the juices trickling down and hissing into the coals.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

15  His two oldest brothers, James and Andrew, he hardly remembered, save as close-lipped youths who came and went at odd hours of the night on mysterious errands or disappeared for weeks at a time, to their mother's gnawing anxiety.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

16  The thunderstruck Robillards knew the answer in part, but only Ellen and her mammy ever knew the whole story of the night when the girl sobbed till the dawn like a broken-hearted child and rose up in the morning a woman with her mind made up.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

17  Sometimes when Scarlett tiptoed at night to kiss her tall mother's cheek, she looked up at the mouth with its too short, too tender upper lip, a mouth too easily hurt by the world, and wondered if it had ever curved in silly girlish giggling or whispered secrets through long nights to intimate girl friends.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III