SEWING in Classic Quotes

1  Ellen's sewing box in his hands.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

2  She'll wear herself out nursing and sewing.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

3  And I see Mother, sewing there, as she did when I was a little boy.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

4  She cast a quick glance at the slight figure with blushing face bent over the sewing.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

5  Old ladies were so difficult, Young Miss whispered to Sally as they went back to their sewing.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

6  Last, the Confederacy needed every pair of hands for sewing, knitting, bandage rolling and nursing the wounded.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

7  But on three afternoons a week she had to attend sewing circles and bandage-rolling committees of Melanie's friends.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

8  He had no knowledge of the dawn-till-midnight activities of these women, chained to supervision of cooking, nursing, sewing and laundering.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

9  After an interval of silent sewing, they heard sounds outside and, peering through the curtains, they saw Dr. Meade alighting from his horse.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

10  One by one the neighbors slipped away, reluctant to be present when the doctor came home, and Scarlett and Melanie were left alone, sewing in the parlor.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

11  They all cried to her that she must join their knitting and sewing circles and their hospital committees, and no one else's, and she promised recklessly to right and left.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

12  Only the older men, the cripples and the women were left, and they spent their time knitting and sewing, growing more cotton and corn, raising more hogs and sheep and cows for the army.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

13  Melanie's eyes took in the scene below in its entirety, the sprawling blue-clad body in the red pool, the sewing box beside him, Scarlett, barefooted and gray-faced, clutching the long pistol.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

14  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

15  The Meades and McLures proudly read these letters all over the neighborhood, and Scarlett had frequently felt a secret shame that Melanie had no such letters from Ashley to read aloud at sewing circles.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XI

16  He stood in the door of the dining room, crouched tensely, his pistol in one hand and, in the other, the small rosewood sewing box fitted with gold thimble, gold-handled scissors and tiny gold- topped acorn of emery.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

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
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III