1 The crash of a loaded branch falling far off in the woods reverberated like a musket-shot, and once a fox barked, and Mattie shrank closer to Ethan, and quickened her steps.
2 That was all; but all their intercourse had been made up of just such inarticulate flashes, when they seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.
3 He looked at her hair and longed to touch it again, and to tell her that it smelt of the woods; but he had never learned to say such things.
4 The sun was low across the new-plowed fields and the tall woods across the river were looming blackly in silhouette.
5 And, my dear, they stayed out nearly all night and walked home finally, saying the horse had run away and smashed the buggy and they had gotten lost in the woods.
6 Beyond it, Peachtree road narrowed and twisted under great trees out of sight into thick quiet woods.
7 The trains are crowded and uncertain and the passengers are liable to be put off in the woods at any time, if the trains are needed for the wounded or troops and supplies.
8 But she couldn't take Melanie to the woods.
9 Even if you didn't run into the Yankees, the woods are full of stragglers and deserters from both armies.
10 The dim shapes of houses grew farther and farther apart and unbroken woods loomed wall-like on either side.
11 He laughed suddenly, a ringing, free laugh that startled the echoes in the dark woods.
12 She felt that the once-familiar woods were full of ghosts.
13 Suellen, you and Carreen fill the baskets with as much food as you can carry and get to the woods.
14 This was her last view of home, her last view except what she might see from the cover of the woods or the swamp, the tall chimneys wrapped in smoke, the roof crashing in flame.
15 I came back as soon as I got the stock safe in the woods.