TANGLE in Classic Quotes

1  She looked like a dead, old woman with her ravaged face and her dark hair snarled and tangled across it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

2  The mockingbird, which nested in the tangle of roses and honeysuckle, roused from slumber and gave one timid, liquid note.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX

3  Through the tangle of ambulances and the clouds of dust, she could see doctors and stretcher bearers bending, lifting, hurrying.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

4  Words of moral indignation rose to her lips but suddenly she remembered the Yankee who lay under the tangle of scuppernong vines at Tara.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

5  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

6  She hesitated, unwilling to soil her slippers and hems, and looked about in the shouting tangle of wagons, buggies and carriages for Miss Pittypat.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

7  The honeysuckle which draped the gullied red sides of the road in tangled greenery was piercingly fragrant as always after rain, the sweetest perfume in the world.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIX

8  The uprights which held the thick vines were rotten and that night Scarlett hacked at them with the kitchen knife until they fell and the tangled mass ran wild over the grave.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

9  In her thought she traced its course as it ran down the hill to the sluggish Flint River, through the tangled swampy bottoms and up the next hill to Twelve Oaks where Ashley lived.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

10  Grandpa Merriwether's pie wagon was in the center of the tangle and, as she came closer, Scarlett saw that Tommy Wellburn and Uncle Henry Hamilton were crowded on the seat with him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLII

11  The muddy Flint River, running silently between walls of pine and water oak covered with tangled vines, wrapped about Gerald's new land like a curving arm and embraced it on two sides.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

12  The lamp in the parlor window threw odd golden shadows onto the dark vine-shrouded porch, and the matted tangle of yellow climbing roses and honeysuckle made a wall of mingled fragrance about her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX

13  People were always in their front yards or on their porches at sunset and, as Bonnie was such a friendly, pretty child, with her tangle of black curls and her bright blue eyes, few could resist talking to her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LII

14  As she sat rocking the baby and humming to herself, she heard the sound of hooves coming up the side street and, peering curiously through the tangle of dead vines on the porch, she saw Rhett Butler riding toward the house.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIII

15  Names of graves where friends lay buried, names of tangled underbrush and thick woods where bodies rotted unburied, names of the four sides of Atlanta where Sherman had tried to force his army in and Hood's men had doggedly beaten him back.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX

16  Sometimes they went tearing down the quiet roads about the town, scattering chickens and dogs and children, Bonnie beating Mr. Butler with her crop, her tangled curls flying, Rhett holding in his horse with a firm hand that she might think Mr. Butler was winning the race.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LIX

17  It all seemed wild and untamed to her coast- bred eyes accustomed to the quiet jungle beauty of the sea islands draped in their gray moss and tangled green, the white stretches of beach hot beneath a semitropic sun, the long flat vistas of sandy land studded with palmetto and palm.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III