1 The elders of the flocks continually led stealthy advances into the front yard, lured on by the green of the grass and the luscious promise of the cape jessamine buds and the zinnia beds.
2 Scarlett and Melanie thought of this, but bred to politeness to their elders, refrained from remarking on the matter.
3 Shoulder to shoulder with their elders came the young boys, none of them looking over sixteen.
4 These girls who had come to maturity since the surrender had only childish memories of the war and lacked the bitterness that animated their elders.
5 They all loved her but they thought her the sweetest, most pliable of young women, deferential to her elders and without any opinions of her own.
6 As a result, Bonnie interrupted her elders whenever she pleased and contradicted her father and put him in his place.
7 She hoped that the wise elders might be so tolerant as to listen to her suggestions about changing the shelving of the juveniles.
8 Hugh learned that the pile was the hiding-place of Injuns; he went gunning for them while the elders talked of uninteresting things.
9 I became somewhat embarrassed, for I was used to being taken for granted by my elders.
10 She seemed to think that my elders withheld helpful information, and that from me she might get valuable secrets.
11 That is what their elders are always forgetting.
12 I knew it would be useless to acquaint my elders with any such plan.
13 Down there, on the lower shelf of the bank, I saw Antonia, seated alone under the pagoda-like elders.
14 We have done that already, Constantine Thedorovitch, and our elders' opinion is: 'There is no need for further talk.'
15 The elders began talking about Bonaparte.