1 The hush of midnight lay on the village, and all its waking life was gathered behind the church windows, from which strains of dance-music flowed with the broad bands of yellow light.
2 Without replying he gathered the pieces of glass into his broad palm and walked out of the kitchen to the passage.
3 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.
4 Such a glowing morning usually called Scarlett to the window, to lean arms on the broad sill and drink in the scents and sounds of Tara.
5 Scarlett shot a look of sharp suspicion at her, but Mammy's broad face carried only a look of innocence and of regret that Scarlett was not the lady Melanie Hamilton was.
6 Our cook is the broad wife of the Wilkes butler, and he was over last night with the news that the engagement would be announced tonight and Cookie told us this morning.
7 Scarlett caught a fleeting glimpse and saw that it was a broad gold ring.
8 But now, even the most strait laced felt that patriotism called upon them to be more broad minded.
9 "Why--" began Uncle Henry, irritated at the feminine mind which thought only of personal things when broad issues were involved.
10 They shot higher and higher and widened rapidly into a broad expanse of red before her terrified eyes.
11 His broad shoulders were hunched forward and his chin jutted out as though the thoughts in his mind were not pleasant.
12 Your life isn't safe on the streets after dark and even in the broad daylight they push ladies off the sidewalks into the mud.
13 Her father had started as a poor immigrant boy and had won the broad acres of Tara.
14 She took the handkerchief and wiped her damp cheeks, a little relief stealing over her as if she had shifted some of her burden to his broad shoulders.
15 She remembered the comfort of his broad brown chest and his strong arms.