1 The afternoon was drawing to an end, and here and there a lighted pane spangled the cold gray dusk and made the snow look whiter.
2 There was more wet in the air and it seemed likely to both men that the weather would "milden" toward afternoon and make the going safer.
3 "I want you should stay here this afternoon, Ethan," his wife said.
4 It was little more than a year ago, on just such a soft afternoon, with a "feel" of spring in the air.
5 The lane passed into a pine-wood with boles reddening in the afternoon sun and delicate blue shadows on the snow.
6 Outside, the late afternoon sun slanted down in the yard, throwing into gleaming brightness the dogwood trees that were solid masses of white blossoms against the background of new green.
7 It was for this precise reason that Stuart and Brent were idling on the porch of Tara this April afternoon.
8 Just how, the twins did not know, but the fine glow had gone out of the afternoon.
9 Her father had ridden over to Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes plantation, that afternoon to offer to buy Dilcey, the broad wife of his valet, Pork.
10 That afternoon, Gerald, his resistance worn thin, had set out to make an offer for Dilcey.
11 Even if he hasn't actually heard anything this afternoon, perhaps he's noticed something, sensed some excitement in the Wilkes family.
12 Between the two evils, it was better to have Scarlett wear an afternoon dress at a morning barbecue than to have her gobble like a hog.
13 And she thought with a tingling in her heart how she and Ashley might ride swiftly through this beauty of blossom and greenery this very afternoon, or tonight by moonlight, toward Jonesboro and a preacher.
14 She couldn't have been very nice or she wouldn't have gone out with him in the late afternoon without a chaperon.
15 From the window on the landing, she could see the group of men sitting under the arbor, drinking from tall glasses, and she knew they would remain there until late afternoon.