1 Zeena answered in her every-day tone and, warming to the theme, regaled them with several vivid descriptions of intestinal disturbances among her friends and relatives.
2 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.
3 Cade Calvert was there and, after I settled about Dilcey, we all set on the gallery and had several toddies.
4 Pork, the only trained house negro on the place, had general supervision over the other servants, but even he had grown slack and careless after several years of exposure to Gerald's happy-go-lucky mode of living.
5 As he was several cuts above the Slatterys in education, it was only natural that he should not want to marry Emmie, no matter how often he might walk with her in the twilight.
6 Opposite the winding stair stood a walnut sideboard, too large for use in the dining room, bearing on its wide top several lamps and a long row of candles in candlesticks.
7 Palmetto fans were wagging more slowly, and several gentlemen were nodding from the heat and overloaded stomachs.
8 Evidently, she was not the only one to whom this idea occurred, for several of the boys were beginning to stick out their chins.
9 "Of course, it will mean fighting," said Charles, after several more embarrassed attempts.
10 He stuttered several times, closed his mouth and opened it again, and again became geranium colored.
11 Charles' aunt, Miss Pittypat Hamilton, had written her several times, urging her to permit Scarlett to come to Atlanta for a long visit, and now for the first time Ellen considered it seriously.
12 Visitors presented no problem, for houses were large, servants numerous and the feeding of several extra mouths a minor matter in that land of plenty.
13 He laughed too, and so loudly that several of the chaperons in the corner looked their way.
14 Scrapes about women, several shootings, gun running to the revolutionists in Central America and, worst of all, professional gambling were included in his career, as Atlanta heard it.
15 Pittypat fluttered, too upset by the accusation to recall that Mrs. Merriwether had also been Rhett Butler's hostess on several occasions.