1 He knew what he wanted, and when Gerald wanted something he gained it by taking the most direct route.
2 It was a simple plan, for, with Gerald's single-mindedness of purpose, her eyes were centered on the goal and she thought only of the most direct steps by which to reach it.
3 Scarlett had made her plans to spend Christmas at Tara, but after Ashley's telegram came no power on earth, not even a direct command from the disappointed Ellen, could drag her away from Atlanta.
4 With those precious twin lines of iron in danger, the Confederates left their desperately defended rifle pits and, under the starlight, made a forced march to Resaca by the short, direct road.
5 Instead of continuing the direct assault, he swung his army in a wide circle again and tried to come between the Confederates and Atlanta.
6 Before his direct gaze her eyes fell again in real confusion.
7 An impulse of curiosity made him turn out of his direct line to the door, and stroll past her.
8 It was the first time she had received a direct communication from Bellomont since the close of her last visit there, and she was still visited by the dread of having incurred Judy's displeasure.
9 But for the moment she was drawn out of herself by the interest of her direct relation with a world so unlike her own.
10 Reaching town, he was driven direct to his club, where he hoped a note from Miss Bart might await him.
11 The implication that such loyalty would meet with a direct reward had hastened her flight, and flung her back, ashamed and penitent, on the broad bosom of Gerty's sympathy.
12 For sinful as he is, Jonah does not weep and wail for direct deliverance.
13 Nor, will the tragic dramatist who would depict mortal indomitableness in its fullest sweep and direct swing, ever forget a hint, incidentally so important in his art, as the one now alluded to.
14 There are no external chimneys; they open direct from the rear wall.
15 Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness, until Jake arrived with the hamper, as if in direct answer to Mrs. Shimerda's reproaches.