PLANTATION in Classic Quotes

1  The stranger shoved in all his chips and followed with the deed to his plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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2  The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid, complacent.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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3  With a ruthless singleness of purpose, he desired his own house, his own plantation, his own horse, his own slaves.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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4  Her father had ridden over to Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes plantation, that afternoon to offer to buy Dilcey, the broad wife of his valet, Pork.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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5  Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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6  He backed his big red horse and then, putting spurs to his side, lifted him easily over the split rail fence into the soft field of Gerald O'Hara's plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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7  He had gone up there and established a plantation; but, now the house had burned down, he was tired of the "accursed place" and would be most happy to get it off his hands.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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8  Nor had she ever seen her sit down without a bit of needlework in her hands, except at mealtime, while attending the sick or while working at the bookkeeping of the plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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9  Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroes and eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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10  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
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11  Then the hand of Fate and a hand of poker combined to give him the plantation which he afterwards called Tara, and at the same time moved him out of the Coast into the upland country of north Georgia.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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12  The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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13  He found poker the most useful of all Southern customs, poker and a steady head for whisky; and it was his natural aptitude for cards and amber liquor that brought to Gerald two of his three most prized possessions, his valet and his plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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14  Gerald, his mind never free of the thought of owning a plantation of his own, arranged an introduction, and his interest grew as the stranger told how the northern section of the state was filling up with newcomers from the Carolinas and Virginia.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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15  He knew that section to be as well settled as the Coast, but from the stranger's description, his plantation was more than two hundred and fifty miles inland from Savannah to the north and west, and not many miles south of the Chattahoochee River.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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16  He liked the casual grace with which they conducted affairs of importance, risking a fortune, a plantation or a slave on the turn of a card and writing off their losses with careless good humor and no more ado than when they scattered pennies to pickaninnies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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17  Scarlett could not imagine her mother's hands without her gold thimble or her rustling figure unaccompanied by the small negro girl whose sole function in life was to remove basting threads and carry the rosewood sewing box from room to room, as Ellen moved about the house superintending the cooking, the cleaning and the wholesale clothes-making for the plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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