1 During the first months Ethan alternately burned with the desire to see Mattie defy her and trembled with fear of the result.
2 During the winter months there was no stage between Starkfield and Bettsbridge, and the trains which stopped at Corbury Flats were slow and infrequent.
3 It was the builder's custom to pay at the end of three months, and there was no precedent between the two men for a cash settlement.
4 If he glued it together the next morning months might elapse before his wife noticed what had happened, and meanwhile he might after all be able to match the dish at Shadd's Falls or Bettsbridge.
5 He still took refuge there in summer, but when Mattie came to live at the farm he had to give her his stove, and consequently the room was uninhabitable for several months of the year.
6 The boys looked uncomfortable, recalling their mother's conduct three months ago when they had come home, by request, from the University of Virginia.
7 The troop of cavalry had been organized three months before, the very day that Georgia seceded from the Union, and since then the recruits had been whistling for war.
8 And Ashley couldn't have seen her in months.
9 Within two weeks Scarlett had become a wife, and within two months more she was a widow.
10 Then there would have been a decorous interval of a year or at least six months.
11 When Uncle Peter finally maneuvered the carriage out of the mudholes and onto Peachtree Street, she felt the first surge of interest she had known in months.
12 She felt better now than she had felt in months.
13 But he was the first man in months who had displayed an interest in her, and she threw him a gay smile.
14 "Two months," said Scarlett, unwillingly.
15 They were likely to propose in three or four months.