STRENGTH in Classic Quotes

1  But God would give me strength to bear it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV

2  Something in his look challenged her spirit and brought her strength back in a surge of dislike.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

3  He put out his hand toward her and, as he did, she slapped him across the face with all the strength she had.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

4  Suddenly she hated him, hated him with a strength that momentarily overpowered her fear, made it seem petty and small.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

5  When she had finished it, a measure of strength came back to her and with the strength came again the pricking of fear.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

6  His was such an easy, graceful strength, lazy as a panther stretching in the sun, alert as a panther to spring and strike.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

7  Climbing back into the wagon required all the strength Scarlett could muster, but at last it was done and she picked up the lines.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

8  Mother had always been just as she was, a pillar of strength, a fount of wisdom, the one person who knew the answers to everything.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

9  Atlanta considered him the root of all strength and all wisdom and it was not strange that he had absorbed something of their belief.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

10  For the first time, she realized that this was Ashley's baby and suddenly wished with all the strength left in her that he were her baby, hers and Ashley's.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

11  But she had promised and now they belonged to her, even as Wade and Prissy belonged to her, and she must struggle and fight for them as long as she had strength or breath.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

12  Mrs. Meade managed to smile and wave until he had passed and then she leaned her head on the back of Scarlett's shoulder for a moment as though her strength had suddenly left her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

13  Ellen had taught her that at the end of each day it was her duty to examine her conscience thoroughly, to admit her numerous faults and pray to God for forgiveness and strength never to repeat them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

14  Moreover, many of them were dying, dying swiftly, silently, having little strength left to combat the blood poisoning, gangrene, typhoid and pneumonia which had set in before they could reach Atlanta and a doctor.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

15  So, to save the feelings of all and to bring the Troop up to full strength, Scarlett's father, John Wilkes, Buck Munroe, Jim Tarleton, Hugh Calvert, in fact every large planter in the County with the one exception of Angus MacIntosh, had contributed money to completely outfit the Troop, horse and man.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

16  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

17  If she could only reach the kind arms of Tara and Ellen and lay down her burdens, far too heavy for her young shoulders--the dying woman, the fading baby, her own hungry little boy, the frightened negro, all looking to her for strength, for guidance, all reading in her straight back courage she did not possess and strength which had long since failed.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV