1 The raised platform for the musicians was especially artistic.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IX 2 At the other end of the hall from the platform, the ladies had eclipsed themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IX 3 The musicians clambered upon their platform, black, grinning, their fat cheeks already shining with perspiration, and began tuning their fiddles and sawing and whanging with their bows in anticipatory importance.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IX 4 Scarlett tiptoed above the crowd and saw the captain of the militia mounting the orchestra platform.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IX 5 Scarlett leaned her elbows on the counter and almost glared at the excited laughing crowd surging about the platform, their hands full of Confederate paper money.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IX 6 She saw the doctor lean down from the platform and whisper something to Rhett Butler.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret MitcheGet Context In CHAPTER IX 7 She turned from the thought with a little shiver, but it hung on her all the way to the station, and dogged her down the platform with the persistency of Mr. Rosedale himself.
House of Mirth By Edith WhartonGet Context In BOOK 1: Chapter 2 8 As she came into the small business-section she inspected a broad-beamed grocer in an alpaca coat who was bending over the apples and celery on a slanted platform in front of his store.
9 But the varnished oak pews and the new red carpet and the three large chairs on the platform, behind the bare reading-stand, were all of a rocking-chair comfort.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXVIII 10 They stepped uncomfortably from the safety of the plank platform and, balancing on their toes, taking cautious strides, ventured along the road.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXIV 11 The last thing she saw on the station platform was Kennicott, faithfully waving his hand, his face so full of uncomprehending loneliness that he could not smile but only twitch up his lips.
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXXVI 12 In the red glow from the fire-box, a group of people stood huddled together on the platform, encumbered by bundles and boxes.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I 13 As he walked about the platform in his high-heeled boots, looking for our trunks, I saw that he was a rather slight man, quick and wiry, and light on his feet.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I 14 The conductor took his nickel gingerly, with the tips of his fingers, and then left him with the platform to himself.
15 In front, upon a raised platform behind a rail, sat a stout, florid-faced personage, with a nose broken out in purple blotches.