1 They clung to each other's hands like children, and her body shook with desperate sobs.
2 And then it's generally to some desperate old widower with a large plantation and a dozen children.
3 Rhett's boats were singularly lucky both in taking out cotton for the Confederacy and bringing in the war materials for which the South was desperate.
4 His hand on the doorknob, he turned and looked at her, a long, desperate look, as if he wanted to carry away with him every detail of her face and figure.
5 There was desperate fighting at New Hope Church, eleven days of continuous fighting, with every Yankee assault bloodily repulsed.
6 She wanted Tara with the desperate desire of a frightened child frantic for the only haven it had ever known.
7 The silence was so prolonged she wondered if Grandma could have failed to comprehend her desperate plight.
8 The Fontaines had fared best of any, thanks to Sally's hard ride, but it was flourishing only by comparison with the desperate situation of the other neighbors.
9 Her need of money was too pressing, too desperate, for her to bother about his ultimate fate.
10 "You see what a desperate character I am, Scarlett," said Rhett.
11 "It's made out of Mother's curtains," she answered, too desperate to lie about this shame.
12 She was chilled and disheartened and desperate.
13 Loving you as you say he does, he should have known just what you would do when you were desperate.
14 Now, the eyes which had been fearful and desperate were hard.
15 She tried to remember what she had heard about the releasing of the Milledgeville convicts in that last desperate effort to stem the tide of Sherman's army.