1 But purchasers were slow in coming, and while he waited for them Ethan learned the impossibility of transplanting her.
2 He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things.
3 Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardy to survive among large ones.
4 He even learned to chew tobacco.
5 From them he learned what he found useful, and the rest he dismissed.
6 To this end, Ellen and Mammy bent their efforts, and as Scarlett grew older she became an apt pupil in this subject, even though she learned little else.
7 Most of all she learned how to conceal from men a sharp intelligence beneath a face as sweet and bland as a baby's.
8 Between them, they taught her all that a gentlewoman should know, but she learned only the outward signs of gentility.
9 The inner grace from which these signs should spring, she never learned nor did she see any reason for learning it.
10 From the two he loved best, Charles had received no toughening influences, learned nothing of harshness or reality, and the home in which he grew to manhood was as soft as a bird's nest.
11 She had learned to say, "I won't think of this or that bothersome thought now."
12 They had learned retreating under Old Joe, who had made it as great a feat of strategy as advancing.
13 And no man ever learned such things from good women either.
14 Mother never knew, never heard the enemy in the rooms below, never heard the guns at Jonesboro, never learned that the land which was part of her heart was under Yankee feet.
15 Life treated women well when they had learned those lessons, said Ellen.