1 Unhappily Orin Silver, a man of far-reaching aims, had died too soon to prove that the end justifies the means.
2 His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.
3 He had often thought since that it would not have happened if his mother had died in spring instead of winter.
4 Words of resistance rushed to Ethan's lips and died there.
5 When the twins left Scarlett standing on the porch of Tara and the last sound of flying hooves had died away, she went back to her chair like a sleepwalker.
6 There was a steely quality under her stately gentleness that awed the whole household, Gerald as well as the girls, though he would have died rather than admit it.
7 He was gone and the memory of his stricken face would haunt her till she died.
8 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.
9 Till the day she died there would be blank spots in her memories of those days.
10 He had died ignominiously and swiftly of pneumonia, following measles, without ever having gotten any closer to the Yankees than the camp in South Carolina.
11 Uncle Peter practically raised Melanie and me, for we were very young when Father and Mother died.
12 "He died in camp," said Scarlett flatly.
13 When the last sound of carriage wheels had died away and she knew the family was safely out of sight, she slipped quietly into Melanie's room and turned the key in the lock.
14 Scarlett knew that Rhett was not being patriotic and, though she would have died rather than confess it, she did not care.
15 No, even if Miss Pitty died, she wouldn't leave this spot.