1 This she knew would be a straw that would break the backs of Pittypat and Melanie.
2 Not marrying the young lady, of whom you have probably heard, was merely the last straw.
3 Scarlett caught up her wide straw bonnet from the console table and jammed it on her head.
4 She looked at the lank figure leaning against the porch column, chewing a straw.
5 This crushing news brought by Will, coming on top of a year of back-breaking work and hope deferred, was the last straw.
6 She thought of Tara and remembered Jonas Wilkerson, venomous as a rattler, at the foot of the front steps, and she grasped at the last straw floating above the shipwreck of her life.
7 He threw his battered straw hat into the back of the wagon, clucked to the horse and they moved off.
8 "But your heart warn't broken," Will said calmly and, picking up a straw from the bottom of the wagon, he put it in his mouth and chewed slowly.
9 "Oh, yes, I do in a way," he said removing the straw and surveying it as if it were highly interesting.
10 "Well, that's yours and Ashley's business," said Will and put the straw back in his mouth.
11 Scarlett thought of Will, lank, unimpressive, mild, eternally chewing a straw, his whole appearance deceptively devoid of energy, like that of most Crackers.
12 I've gotten mighty tired of hearing people criticize you, darling," Melanie said, "and this is the last straw and I'm going to do something about it.
13 But she exclaimed over the lakes: dark water reflecting wooded bluffs, a flight of ducks, a fisherman in shirt sleeves and a wide straw hat, holding up a string of croppies.
14 Mounds of straw, and wheat-stacks like bee-hives, stood out in startling rose and gold, and the green-tufted stubble glistened.
15 He had tried to please her, then, had touched her by sheepishly wearing a colored band on his straw hat.