ORGAN in Classic Quotes

1  "These damned Rebels are as efficiently organized as our Secret Service," he said.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVI

2  It's said that Mr. Wade Hampton is organizing a cavalry troop, and of course I would want to go with him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

3  The excitement broke out again in louder words and this time the two organizations merged and spoke as one.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI

4  And--I know this will hurt you, Mrs. Butler, but I am contributing plenty of money to the organization, too.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LVIII

5  I'm working harder than I ever worked with a shovel in the gold rush, trying to help get the election organized.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LVIII

6  Immediately the fires which smoldered beneath tight basques flamed wildly and the two organizations split up and glared hostilely.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI

7  That lady herself played the organ for the choir at the Methodist Church and, as an organist, had scant respect for harps or harpists.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI

8  Then there was the organization of Democrats who forgathered every Wednesday night to devise ways of regaining the ballot and Frank never missed a meeting.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII

9  The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union, and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

10  And it was against this nocturnal organization that the newspapers of the North cried out most loudly, never realizing the tragic necessity that brought it into being.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII

11  This Bureau, organized by the Federal government to take care of the idle and excited ex-slaves, was drawing them from the plantations into the villages and cities by the thousands.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

12  This worked great hardship and strained the tact and forbearance of the unrelated half of the town, for the India-Melanie feud made a rupture in practically every social organization.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LV

13  They organized bazaars and presided over sewing circles, they chaperoned balls and picnics, they knew who made good matches and who did not, who drank secretly, who were to have babies and when.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

14  To her had come that pleasant intoxication peculiar to those whose lives are a deliberate slap in the face of organized society--the gambler, the confidence man, the polite adventuress, all those who succeed by their wits.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

15  Grandpa Merriwether, safe in the masculine confines of the Girl of the Period Saloon an hour later, reported to Uncle Henry Hamilton that after these words, everybody cried and embraced Melanie and it all ended up in a love feast and Melanie was made secretary of both organizations.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI

16  The twins had been at home, freshly expelled from the University of Virginia, at the time the Troop was organized and they had joined enthusiastically; but after the shooting episode, two months ago, their mother had packed them off to the state university, with orders to stay there.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

17  One and all, Mammy dosed them, never waiting to ask foolish questions about the state of their organs and, one and all, they drank her doses meekly and with wry faces, remembering, perhaps, other stern black faces in far-off places and other inexorable black hands holding medicine spoons.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX