WORK in Classic Quotes

1  But anyone at Tara who won't work can go hunt up the Yankees.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

2  He was needed, like the young men, and he was doing a young man's work.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX

3  It was beyond their comprehension that they no longer had a hundred slaves to do the work.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

4  She hoped everything would work out that way, because it would be more difficult otherwise.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

5  Under the supervision of the Ladies' Hospital Committee, this was plain hard work and no fun at all.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

6  "You're a fool nigger, and the worst day's work Pa ever did was to buy you," said Scarlett slowly, too tired for anger.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

7  Gerald had begun to work himself up into a pleasurable shouting rage when something in Scarlett's woebegone face stopped him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

8  The replacing of these posts was one bit of repair work Scarlett did not suggest and, if the negroes knew why, they kept their silence.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

9  They seemed never too busy to drop work for a fish fry, a hunt or a horse race, and scarcely a week went by without its barbecue or ball.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

10  You can breed a mare to a brother or a sire to a daughter and get good results if you know your blood strains, but in people it just doesn't work.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

11  When she hung over the foot of their bed and outlined the work she expected them to do when they recovered, they looked at her as if she were a hobgoblin.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

12  Almost the pulsing of the town's heart could be felt as the work went forward night and day, pumping the materials of war up the railway arteries to the two battle fronts.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

13  But if she was gentle the darkies would sit in the kitchen all day, talking endlessly about the good old days when a house nigger wasn't supposed to do a field hand's work.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

14  The night before had been wild and wet with rain, but when Scarlett arrived in Atlanta a warm sun was at work, bravely attempting to dry the streets that were winding rivers of red mud.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

15  It was an imposition on her and she knew that when the wounded came in on the noon train there would be enough work to keep her busy until night-fall--and probably without anything to eat.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

16  Atlanta was humming like a beehive, proudly conscious of its importance to the Confederacy, and work was going forward night and day toward turning an agricultural section into an industrial one.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

17  She silently cursed the efficient and indefatigable Mrs. Merriwether, the wounded and the whole Southern Confederacy, as Prissy buttoned her in her oldest and raggedest calico frock which she used for hospital work.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII