THIN in Classic Quotes

1  Cannon rolled past, the drivers flaying the thin mules with lengths of rawhide.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

2  She looked at Scarlett sideways and scuffed her feet and twisted her thin body.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

3  That afternoon, Gerald, his resistance worn thin, had set out to make an offer for Dilcey.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

4  It showed in the thin hawk nose over the full red lips, the high forehead and the wide-set eyes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

5  Ellen was thin and preoccupied now and on her feet from morning until long after the plantation was asleep.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

6  Suspense, worry, sorrow, hunger and the torment of rising, falling, rising hope was wearing that skin thin.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX

7  She looked at the thin forms, tossing before her, the sheets about them moist and dark from dripping water.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

8  Scarlett recalled with contempt Melanie's thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to homeliness.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

9  Mrs. Elsing was younger, a thin frail woman, who had been a beauty, and about her there still clung a faded freshness, a dainty imperious air.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

10  Then, there was a crash of falling timbers near by and Scarlett saw a thin tongue of flame lick up over the roof of the warehouse in whose sheltering shadow they sat.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

11  Ellen, busy night and day, doubling the productiveness of Tara to aid the Confederacy, was terrified when her eldest daughter came home from Charleston thin, white and sharp tongued.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

12  In the silence that fell, Scarlett saw her mother as she must have been in those last days, a thin power of strength in Tara, nursing, working, doing without sleep and food that the others might rest and eat.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

13  He was followed closely by Jack, a black little boy of ten, hastily buttoning a white linen jacket with one hand and bearing in the other a fly-swisher, made of thin strips of newspaper tied to a reed longer than he was.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

14  By a series of limping jerks, she pulled the body down the hall toward the back porch and, pausing to wipe her forehead with the back of her hand, glanced back toward Melanie, sitting against the wall hugging her thin knees to her bare breasts.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

15  She saw in a flash of clarity untouched by any petty emotion that beneath the gentle voice and the dovelike eyes of Melanie there was a thin flashing blade of unbreakable steel, felt too that there were banners and bugles of courage in Melanie's quiet blood.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

16  Frank Kennedy might own more land than anyone in the County and he might have a very kind heart, but these things counted for nothing against the fact that he was forty, slight and nervous and had a thin ginger-colored beard and an old-maidish, fussy way about him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

17  She heard a low moan and, turning, saw Fanny Elsing lay her head on her mother's bosom, saw the casualty list flutter to the floor of the carriage, saw Mrs. Elsing's thin lips quiver as she gathered her daughter in her arms and said quietly to the coachman: "Home."

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIV