1 Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.
2 But Stuart felt guilty and ill at ease with her.
3 Gerald's sharp blue eyes noticed how efficiently his neighbors' houses were run and with what ease the smooth-haired wives in rustling skirts managed their servants.
4 The barbecue was over and all were content to take their ease while sun was at its height.
5 A heavy warm somnolence lay over the house, as if it slept at ease like the girls, until night when it would burst into its full beauty with music and candle flames.
6 What Melanie did was no more than all Southern girls were taught to do--to make those about them feel at ease and pleased with themselves.
7 I only thought to ease your mind.
8 She wished that she could cry, do something to ease the iron fingers that were digging into her throat.
9 Chloroform was so scarce now it was used only for the worst amputations and opium was a precious thing, used only to ease the dying out of life, not the living out of pain.
10 Then, stooping, he jerked the boy to his shoulders with an ease that looked like sleight of hand.
11 For Ashley, spring was back again, that half- forgotten balmy spring of green rustlings and murmurings, a spring of ease and indolence, careless days when the desires of youth were warm in his body.
12 But he could ease his heart by talking about her to Scarlett.
13 Talking to Rhett was comparable only to one thing, the feeling of ease and comfort afforded by a pair of old slippers after dancing in a pair too tight.
14 I merely wanted to set your mind at ease.
15 This was not the meek Frank she knew, the nervous beard clawer who she had learned could be bullied with such ease.