SUMMER in Classic Quotes

1  Caro Rhett told me about him last summer.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

2  Hope firm, unshaken despite the defeats of the summer before.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

3  In the warm wet summer nights, Atlanta's homes stood open to the soldiers, the town's defenders.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

4  It was as though a small, dark cloud had appeared in the northwest, the first cloud of a summer storm.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

5  Until the previous summer, Stuart had courted India Wilkes with the approbation of both families and the entire County.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

6  Then, last summer at a political speaking in a grove of oak trees at Jonesboro, they both suddenly became aware of Scarlett O'Hara.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

7  He had so many hats, wide Panamas for summer, tall beavers for formal occasions, hunting hats, slouch hats of tan and black and blue.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

8  Already summer was in the air, the first hint of Georgia summer when the high tide of spring gives way reluctantly before a fiercer heat.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

9  The rose organdie with long pink sash was becoming, but she had worn it last summer when Melanie visited Twelve Oaks and she'd be sure to remember it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

10  This was a section that knew the chill of winter, as well as the heat of summer, and there was a vigor and energy in the people that was strange to her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

11  Later, in the long, hot summer twilight, the ambulances came rumbling down the road from the battle field and commissary wagons, covered with muddy canvas.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

12  On the porch steps stood John Wilkes, silver-haired, erect, radiating the quiet charm and hospitality that was as warm and never failing as the sun of Georgia summer.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

13  One bright summer morning some weeks later, he reappeared with a brightly trimmed hatbox in his hand and, after finding that Scarlett was alone in the house, he opened it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

14  In the early morning hours before the noises of the town awoke, the cannon at Kennesaw Mountain could be heard faintly, far away, a low dim booming that might have passed for summer thunder.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

15  This Ashley Wilkes in his faded, patched uniform, his blond hair bleached tow by summer suns, was a different man from the easy- going, drowsy-eyed boy she had loved to desperation before the war.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

16  In spring time and summer, the Bermuda grass and clover on the lawn became emerald, so enticing an emerald that it presented an irresistible temptation to the flocks of turkeys and white geese that were supposed to roam only the regions in the rear of the house.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

17  Despite privation and hardships, despite food speculators and kindred scourges, despite death and sickness and suffering which had now left their mark on nearly every family, the South was again saying "One more victory and the war is over," saying it with even more happy assurance than in the summer before.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV