WIND in Classic Quotes

1  No far-off cattle lowed, no birds sang, no wind waved the trees.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

2  Thin as a rail and delicate enough for the wind to blow away and no spirit at all.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

3  The door clicked open and a gust of cold wind swept the house, fluttering the curtains.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

4  He stopped and smiled faintly, shivering a little as the cold wind went through his thin shirt.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

5  He was not fearing the things she feared, not the gnawing of an empty stomach, nor the keenness of the winter wind nor eviction from Tara.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

6  But the South was aflame with war, events roared along as swiftly as if carried by a mighty wind and the slow tempo of the old days was gone.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

7  The small cloud on the horizon had blown up swiftly into a large, sullen storm cloud and it was as though a faint, chilling wind blew from it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

8  The wintry wind swept her damp ankles and she shivered again but her shiver was less from the wind than from the dread his words evoked in her heart.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

9  She rounded a thicket of pomegranate trees which were shaking bare limbs in the cold wind and saw him leaning on his axe, wiping his forehead with the back of his hand.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXI

10  All the courtesy, all the gentleness Ellen had striven to instill in her had fallen away from her as quickly as leaves fall from trees in the first chill wind of autumn.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

11  A cold wind was blowing stiffly and the scudding clouds overhead were the deep gray of slate when Scarlett and Mammy stepped from the train in Atlanta the next afternoon.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII

12  The sun shone intermittently the next morning and the hard wind that drove dark clouds swiftly across its face rattled the windowpanes and moaned faintly about the house.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

13  The sun dipped in and out from behind hurrying clouds, lighting the street with a false brightness which had no warmth in it, and the wind fluttered the lace of her pantalets.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV

14  Now, as they all rushed pell-mell to crowd the front door, they saw her coming up the drive like the wind on a lathered horse, her hair streaming behind her, her bonnet dangling by its ribbons.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII

15  Warm clothing, when it was obtainable at all, had risen to such prohibitive prices that Atlanta ladies were lining their old dresses with rags and reinforcing them with newspapers to keep out the wind.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVI

16  Carreen, who had always been as delicately pink and white as the orchard blossoms that are scattered by the spring wind, was no longer pink but still conveyed in her sweet thoughtful face a blossomlike quality.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

17  He could not tell them what the army saw when it marched back into Atlanta, the acres and acres of chimneys standing blackly above ashes, piles of half-burned rubbish and tumbled heaps of brick clogging the streets, old trees dying from fire, their charred limbs tumbling to the ground in the cold wind.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII