1 From the beginning of the discussion he had instinctively avoided the mention of Mattie's name, fearing he hardly knew what: criticism, complaints, or vague allusions to the imminent probability of her marrying.
2 The cat had sprung to Zeena's rocking-chair, and the heat of the fire was beginning to draw out the faint sharp scent of the geraniums.
3 It was just awful from the beginning.
4 In the beginning, the Troop had been recruited exclusively from the sons of planters, a gentleman's outfit, each man supplying his own horse, arms, equipment, uniform and body servant.
5 The Litany of the Virgin was beginning, and obediently Scarlett responded: "Pray for us," as Ellen praised in soft contralto the attributes of the Mother of God.
6 It was impossible to feel anything but palpitating joy in this warm sun, in this spring, with the chimneys of Twelve Oaks just beginning to show on the hill across the river.
7 And high time they stopped it, for it's beginning to show.
8 Now, listen to me, Gerald O'Hara, she retorted, her eyes beginning to snap.
9 Evidently, she was not the only one to whom this idea occurred, for several of the boys were beginning to stick out their chins.
10 Afternoon naps were a custom of the country and never were they so necessary as on the all-day parties, beginning early in the morning and culminating in a ball.
11 Through the mad tearing of ideas round and round in her brain, one was beginning to take form.
12 Life and feeling and comprehension were beginning to flow back into her.
13 Her temper was beginning to rise again at the thought that this rude and impertinent man had heard everything--heard things she now wished she had died before she ever uttered.
14 Coolness was beginning to come back to her and her mind was collecting itself.
15 Already the foundries were beginning to feel the lack of iron, for little or none came through the blockade, and the mines in Alabama were standing almost idle while the miners were at the front.