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1  The backwoods folks and the swamp dwellers owned neither horses nor mules.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
2  From planters' homes and swamp cabins, a varied array of firearms came to each muster.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
3  Ah driv dem inter de swamp de day de Yankees come, but de Lawd knows how we gwine git dem.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
4  Their nearest neighbor was twenty miles away by dark roads through still jungles of cypress swamp and oak.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII
5  That morning the house was still, for everyone except Scarlett, Wade and the three sick girls was in the swamp hunting the sow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
6  She never looked out of her window at green pastures and red fields and tall tangled swamp forest that a sense of beauty did not fill her.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  Her first terrified impulse was to hide in the closet, crawl under the bed, fly down the back stairs and run screaming to the swamp, anything to escape him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
8  Raiford Calvert was made first lieutenant, because everybody liked Raif, and Able Wynder, son of a swamp trapper, himself a small farmer, was elected second lieutenant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
9  Spring had come early that year, with warm quick rains and sudden frothing of pink peach blossoms and dogwood dappling with white stars the dark river swamp and far-off hills.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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10  This was her last view of home, her last view except what she might see from the cover of the woods or the swamp, the tall chimneys wrapped in smoke, the roof crashing in flame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
11  Scarlett knew that if she were just there in the swamp with them, she could tuck up her dress to her knees and take the rope and lasso the sow before you could say Jack Robinson.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
12  In the strange half-light, the tall pines of the river swamp, so warmly green in the sunshine, were black against the pastel sky, an impenetrable row of black giants hiding the slow yellow water at their feet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II
13  They lived entirely off the produce of their lands and the game in the swamp, conducting their business generally by the barter system and seldom seeing five dollars in cash a year, and horses and uniforms were out of their reach.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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14  It now hung in the pantry and she had grimly promised her household that she would scratch out the eyes of anyone who mentioned the shoat to their guests or the presence of the dead pig's sisters and brothers, safe in their pen in the swamp.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
15  Gerald was on excellent terms with all his neighbors in the County, except the MacIntoshes whose land adjoined his on the left and the Slatterys whose meager three acres stretched on his right along the swamp bottoms between the river and John Wilkes' plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III
16  But rich planters were few in the young county of Clayton, and, in order to muster a full-strength troop, it had been necessary to raise more recruits among the sons of small farmers, hunters in the backwoods, swamp trappers, Crackers and, in a very few cases, even poor whites, if they were above the average of their class.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I
17  For a timeless moment she stood there and in the still hot hush of the summer morning every irrelevant sound and scent seemed magnified, the quick thudding of her heart, like a drumbeat, the slight rough rustling of the magnolia leaves, the far-off plaintive sound of a swamp bird and the sweet smell of the flowers outside the window.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
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