OWNED in Classic Quotes

1  Few small farmers owned horses.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

2  We never liked them and we never owned none.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII

3  The man owned the property, and the woman managed it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

4  She had never been absolutely certain that Rhett owned the house.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII

5  The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

6  As for the poor whites, they considered themselves well off if they owned one mule.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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7  Probably none of her old friends owned carriages now, if what Pitty had written them was true.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII

8  For, once she owned the earbobs, they had lost their value, as everything except money lost its value once it was hers.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LXI

9  What he did at this desk the bewildered officials of the bank did not know, but he owned too large a block of the stock for them to protest his presence there.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII

10  With the deep hunger of an Irishman who has been a tenant on the lands his people once had owned and hunted, he wanted to see his own acres stretching green before his eyes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

11  His own social status was assured because the Tarletons owned a hundred negroes and, like all slaves of large planters, he looked down on small farmers whose slaves were few.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

12  Eventually all the family found their way to Will's room to air their troubles--even Mammy, who had at first been distant with him because he was not quality and had owned only two slaves.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX

13  Mammy felt that she owned the O'Haras, body and soul, that their secrets were her secrets; and even a hint of a mystery was enough to set her upon the trail as relentlessly as a bloodhound.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

14  Tom Slattery owned no slaves, and he and his two oldest boys spasmodically worked their few acres of cotton, while the wife and younger children tended what was supposed to be a vegetable garden.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

15  At the onset of the war, he had emerged from obscurity with enough money to buy a small swift boat and now, when blockaded goods realized two thousand per cent on each cargo, he owned four boats.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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16  She told him about her problems of weeding and hoeing and planting, of fattening the hogs and breeding the cow, and he gave good advice for he had owned a small farm in south Georgia and two negroes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX

17  It was merely a quaint custom of the County that daughters only married into families who had lived in the South much longer than twenty-two years, had owned land and slaves and been addicted only to the fashionable vices during that time.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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