1 When he came back Mattie had set the teapot on the table and the cat was rubbing itself persuasively against her ankles.
2 As her young brown head detached itself against the patch-work cushion that habitually framed his wife's gaunt countenance, Ethan had a momentary shock.
3 The cat, who had been a puzzled observer of these unusual movements, jumped up into Zeena's chair, rolled itself into a ball, and lay watching them with narrowed eyes.
4 His alteration of mood seemed to have communicated itself to Mattie.
5 To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death-warrant.
6 But the thought of a definite rupture had never come to him, and even now could not lodge itself in his mind.
7 The cat rubbed itself ingratiatingly against her, and she said "Good Pussy," stooped to stroke it and gave it a scrap of meat from her plate.
8 Ethan, rising on his elbow, watched the landscape whiten and shape itself under the sculpture of the moon.
9 But suddenly his wife's face, with twisted monstrous lineaments, thrust itself between him and his goal, and he made an instinctive movement to brush it aside.
10 She was a tall woman, standing a head higher than her fiery little husband, but she moved with such quiet grace in her swaying hoops that the height attracted no attention to itself.
11 By the time Scarlett had undressed and blown out the candle, her plan for tomorrow had worked itself out in every detail.
12 As Melanie looked at Ashley, her plain face lit up as with an inner fire, for if ever a loving heart showed itself upon a face, it was showing now on Melanie Hamilton's.
13 Coolness was beginning to come back to her and her mind was collecting itself.
14 Restless, energetic people from the older sections of Georgia and from more distant states were drawn to this town that sprawled itself around the junction of the railroads in its center.
15 The South could only turn in upon itself.