NIGHTMARE in Classic Quotes

1  I'll wake up and find it's all been a nightmare.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

2  Only hunger and her nightmare dream of hunger could make her afraid.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII

3  What happened next was like a nightmare to Scarlett, and it all happened so quickly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIV

4  The old nightmare feeling was sweeping her, stronger than ever, and her heart began to race.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXII

5  Time and events were telescoped, jumbled together like a nightmare that had no reality or reason.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

6  But the idea of returning to that room where she had spent so many nightmare hours was repulsive to her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

7  Scarlett felt it tremble, tremble as if he had been awakened from a nightmare into a half-sense of reality.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

8  Her mind felt numb and so did her legs, numb as in a nightmare when she tried to run and could not move them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

9  It was during these days that Scarlett dreamed and dreamed again the nightmare which was to haunt her for years.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

10  She thought it the most beautiful and most elegantly furnished house she had ever seen, but Rhett said it was a nightmare.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

11  New Hope Church was a nightmare of another life and so was Big Shanty, where they turned and fought the Yankees like demons.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

12  Perhaps it was this combination that brought back her old nightmare that evening, for she awoke, cold with sweat, sobbing brokenly.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII

13  Even the excitement caused by the swooning spell that overtook Charles' plump emotional aunt, Miss Pittypat Hamilton, had the quality of a nightmare.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

14  She was sick in body and weary in mind and she was standing like a lost child in a nightmare country in which there was no familiar landmark to guide her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LVII

15  "Daytime is enough like a nightmare without my dreaming things," she thought desperately and began hoarding her daily ration to eat it just before she went to sleep.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

16  Those fears had never weighed her down as this feeling of wrongness was doing--this blighting fear that was oddly like that which she knew in her old nightmare, a thick, swimming mist through which she ran with bursting heart, a lost child seeking a haven that was hidden from her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LX

17  It all came back to her now, the nightmare journey after Rhett's footsteps died away, the endless night, the black road full of ruts and boulders along which they jolted, the deep gullies on either side into which the wagon slipped, the fear-crazed strength with which she and Prissy had pushed the wheels out of the gullies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV