1 That he would propose some day she had never doubted, for she was too young and too spoiled ever to have known defeat.
2 Stonewall Jackson's triumphs in the Valley and the defeat of the Yankees in the Seven Days' Battle around Richmond showed that clearly.
3 But you have asked me what was in my heart, and the fear of defeat is there.
4 Besides, the tone of the letter vaguely depressed her with its foolish talk of defeat.
5 Their capture would paralyze the North and more than cancel off the defeat on the Mississippi.
6 She raised frightened eyes to his, but her fear did not spring from Lee's defeat.
7 The army, driven back into Virginia, went into winter quarters on the Rapidan--a tired, depleted army since the defeat at Gettysburg-- and as the Christmas season approached, Ashley came home on furlough.
8 They just didn't have enough men to hold their entrenchments and defeat Sherman's flanking movements, too.
9 In victory or defeat, they were their boys.
10 She sat down and tried to talk of inconsequential things, but the thoughts of Tara and a possible defeat by the Yankees prodded cruelly.
11 She saw in them defeat of her wild dream, her mad desires.
12 But, for four years, he had seen others who had refused to recognize defeat, men who rode gaily into sure disaster because they were gallant.
13 Her mind was leaden with defeat and all she wanted was to lie back in this warm blanket and say to herself: "I won't think of Tara now."
14 They were a soft-spoken, fierce, tired people who were defeated and would not know defeat, broken yet standing determinedly erect.
15 She had gone back to Tara once in fear and defeat and she had emerged from its sheltering walls strong and armed for victory.