1 But, when Mrs. Wilkes, "a great lady and with a rare gift for silence," as Gerald characterized her, told her husband one evening, after Gerald's horse had pounded down the driveway.
2 Rhett, hearing of this from Melanie, brought in from England yards and yards of gleaming white satin and a lace veil and presented them to her as a wedding gift.
3 So Mrs. Merriwether invited him to dinner, feeling that this concession more than paid for the gift.
4 Never, never any expensive gift, even from your fiance.
5 And never any gift of jewelry or wearing apparel, not even gloves or handkerchiefs.
6 That coat for Ashley was a sore subject with Scarlett, for she wished so ardently that she and not Melanie were bestowing it as a Christmas gift.
7 In slave days, it was something they never tasted except at Christmas, when each one received a "drap" along with his gift.
8 She picked up from him the gift of stinging words and sardonic phrases and learned to relish using them for the power they gave her over other people.
9 He sought out Mrs. Elsing to make this donation and embarrassedly begged that she keep his gift a secret, knowing very well that this would spur her to spreading the news.
10 "I love him," she thought and, as always, she accepted the truth with little wonder, as a child accepting a gift.
11 It came vividly to Selden on the Casino steps that Monte Carlo had, more than any other place he knew, the gift of accommodating itself to each man's humour.
12 Well, hereafter I'll refuse your money, as a gift.
13 The first contained strong spirits, and was handed to Queequeg; the second was Aunt Charity's gift, and that was freely given to the waves.
14 He had the gift of simple and moving expression.
15 I believe that Gaston Cleric narrowly missed being a great poet, and I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift.