WOODS in Classic Quotes

1  But she couldn't take Melanie to the woods.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

2  I came back as soon as I got the stock safe in the woods.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII

3  She felt that the once-familiar woods were full of ghosts.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

4  He laughed suddenly, a ringing, free laugh that startled the echoes in the dark woods.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

5  Suellen, you and Carreen fill the baskets with as much food as you can carry and get to the woods.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII

6  Beyond it, Peachtree road narrowed and twisted under great trees out of sight into thick quiet woods.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

7  Even if you didn't run into the Yankees, the woods are full of stragglers and deserters from both armies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

8  The dim shapes of houses grew farther and farther apart and unbroken woods loomed wall-like on either side.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

9  The sun was low across the new-plowed fields and the tall woods across the river were looming blackly in silhouette.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

10  And, my dear, they stayed out nearly all night and walked home finally, saying the horse had run away and smashed the buggy and they had gotten lost in the woods.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

11  The trains are crowded and uncertain and the passengers are liable to be put off in the woods at any time, if the trains are needed for the wounded or troops and supplies.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

12  At least, she had the cow and the calf, a few shoats and the horse, and the neighbors had nothing but the little they had been able to hide in the woods and bury in the ground.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

13  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 Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII

14  But Mammy and Pork worked so slowly and with so many lamentations that Scarlett sent Mammy back to the kitchen to cook and Pork to the woods and the river with snares for rabbits and possums and lines for fish.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

15  They were here in these haunted woods where the slanting afternoon sun gleamed eerily through unmoving leaves, friends and foes, peering at her in her rickety wagon, through eyes blinded with blood and red dust-- glazed, horrible eyes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

16  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 Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XX

17  She recalled with a shudder how often she had driven the unwilling horse into fields and woods when she heard soldiers approaching, not knowing if they were friends or foes--recalled, too, her anguish lest a cough, a sneeze or Wade's hiccoughing might betray them to the marching men.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV