1 And raising good cotton, riding well, shooting straight, dancing lightly, squiring the ladies with elegance and carrying one's liquor like a gentleman were the things that mattered.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER I 2 Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroes and eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER I 3 They looked out across the endless acres of Gerald O'Hara's newly plowed cotton fields toward the red horizon.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER I 4 The moist hungry earth, waiting upturned for the cotton seeds, showed pinkish on the sandy tops of furrows, vermilion and scarlet and maroon where shadows lay along the sides of the trenches.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER I 5 It was a savagely red land, blood-colored after rains, brick dust in droughts, the best cotton land in the world.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER I 6 The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid, complacent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER I 7 He cleared the fields and planted cotton and borrowed more money from James and Andrew to buy more slaves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER III 8 Tom Slattery owned no slaves, and he and his two oldest boys spasmodically worked their few acres of cotton, while the wife and younger children tended what was supposed to be a vegetable garden.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER III 9 But, somehow, the cotton always failed, and the garden, due to Mrs. Slattery's constant childbearing, seldom furnished enough to feed her flock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER III 10 The sight of Tom Slattery dawdling on his neighbors' porches, begging cotton seed for planting or a side of bacon to "tide him over," was a familiar one.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER III 11 All of the world was crying out for cotton, and the new land of the County, unworn and fertile, produced it abundantly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER III 12 There remained varicolored cotton dresses which Scarlett felt were not festive enough for the occasion, ball dresses and the green sprigged muslin she had worn yesterday.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER V 13 Why, all we have is cotton and slaves and arrogance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER VI 14 Only the older men, the cripples and the women were left, and they spent their time knitting and sewing, growing more cotton and corn, raising more hogs and sheep and cows for the army.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER VII 15 Before the war there had been few cotton factories, woolen mills, arsenals and machine shops south of Maryland--a fact of which all Southerners were proud.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER VIII