1 The kitchen was a poor place, not "spruce" and shining as his mother had kept it in his boyhood; but it was surprising what a homelike look the mere fact of Zeena's absence gave it.
2 When he re-entered the kitchen the lamp lit up the same scene of shining comfort as on the previous evening.
3 She was shining black, pure African, devoted to her last drop of blood to the O'Haras, Ellen's mainstay, the despair of her three daughters, the terror of the other house servants.
4 The heavy mahogany table and sideboards, the massive silver, the bright rag rugs on the shining floor were all in their accustomed places, just as if nothing had happened.
5 Then, suddenly, an idea, shining and new, flashed like a comet through her brain.
6 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.
7 Scarlet and gold sashes swung to and fro, sabers glittered and banged against shining boots, spurs rattled and jingled.
8 Melanie, her eyes shining with joy, her head ducked with embarrassed pride, told her she was going to have a baby.
9 Men lay down to die, and the last sight that met their puzzled eyes was the rails shining in the merciless sun, heat shimmering along them.
10 As she looked, two streams of blood crept across the shining floor, one from his face and one from the back of his head.
11 When she opened her eyes she was lying on the back porch, her head pillowed comfortably on Melanie's lap, and the afternoon sunlight was shining on her face.
12 Carreen's eyes were shining oddly.
13 He should come home on a prancing horse, dressed in fine clothes and shining boots, a plume in his hat.
14 The day came when his pale blue eyes, perfectly cognizant of his surroundings, fell upon Carreen sitting beside him, telling her rosary beads, the morning sun shining through her fair hair.
15 Their faces beneath their sun-bonnets were sallow and malarial- looking but shining clean and their freshly ironed calicoes glistened with starch.