1 The mere fact of obeying her orders, of feeling free to go about his business again and talk with other men, restored his shaken balance and magnified his sense of what he owed her.
2 To Ethan there was something vaguely ominous in this stolid rejection of free food and warmth, and he wondered what had happened on the drive to nerve Jotham to such stoicism.
3 They had never before avowed their inclination so openly, and Ethan, for a moment, had the illusion that he was a free man, wooing the girl he meant to marry.
4 When the dish was empty and Gerald only midway in his remarks on the thievishness of Yankees who wanted to free darkies and yet offered no penny to pay for their freedom, Ellen rose.
5 I'd gladly give the horses free of charge if I knew they were going to be ridden by boys I know, gentlemen used to thoroughbreds.
6 And mingled with her frenzied desire to be free of Charles and safely back at Tara, an unmarried girl again, ran the knowledge that she had only herself to blame.
7 She did not see that Rhett had pried open the prison of her widowhood and set her free to queen it over unmarried girls when her days as a belle should have been long past.
8 This was not the turn she had anticipated and she tried again without success to pull her hand free.
9 He laughed suddenly, a ringing, free laugh that startled the echoes in the dark woods.
10 And the Yankees wanted to free them.
11 He knew his slaves were free now and the farm gone to weeds and seedling pines.
12 She had gathered, also, that some of the free negroes were getting quite insolent.
13 "Ah ain no free issue nigger," declared the driver with heat.
14 I only wish we'd had 'paying guests' at Tara for the last year instead of free boarders.'
15 Ah is free, said Mammy heatedly.