SWARMS in Classic Quotes

1  They swarmed on Melanie despite the fan Scarlett kept in constant motion.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII

2  The crowd swarmed about him, tall glasses and palmetto fans abandoned on tables and on the ground.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

3  They swarmed through the rooms, asking questions, opening closets, prodding clothes hampers, peering under beds.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII

4  I wouldn't put anything beyond the swarm of buzzards that's swooping down on Georgia now from north, east, south and west.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVIII

5  Speculators swarmed Wilmington and, having the ready cash, bought up boatloads of goods and held them for a rise in prices.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIII

6  The day was hot and the flies came in the open windows in swarms, fat lazy flies that broke the spirits of the men as pain could not.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

7  Adventurers of every kind swarmed in, hoping to make their fortunes, and the negroes from the country continued to come by the hundreds.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII

8  They would swarm around her like bees around a hive, and certainly Ashley would be drawn from Melanie to join the circle of her admirers.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

9  They landed their cargoes at Wilmington or Charleston, where they were met by swarms of merchants and speculators from all over the South who assembled to buy blockaded goods at auction.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

10  Everywhere, swarms of flies hovered over the men, crawling and buzzing in their faces, everywhere was blood, dirty bandages, groans, screamed curses of pain as stretcher bearers lifted men.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXI

11  When the Yankees, swarming out of the hills, came upon them, the Southern troops were waiting for them, entrenched behind breastworks, batteries planted, bayonets gleaming, even as they had been at Dalton.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVII

12  The town was even more alive than she realized, for there were new barrooms by the dozens; prostitutes, following the army, swarmed the town and bawdy houses were blossoming with women to the consternation of the church people.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

13  Soon a steady stream of them was established, making their painful way into town toward the hospitals, their faces black as negroes' from powder stains, dust and sweat, their wounds unbandaged, blood drying, flies swarming about them.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XVIII

14  Here along Peachtree Street and near-by streets were the headquarters of the various army departments, each office swarming with uniformed men, the commissary, the signal corps, the mail service, the railway transport, the provost marshal.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

15  There was a tumult of sound as everyone but Scarlett swarmed about the fainting Melanie, everyone crying out in alarm, scurrying into the house for water and pillows, and in a moment Scarlett and Uncle Peter were left standing alone on the walk.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXX

16  Flies, mosquitoes and gnats hovered in droning, singing swarms over the wards, tormenting the men to curses and weak sobs; and Scarlett, scratching her own mosquito bites, swung palmetto fans until her shoulders ached and she wished that all the men were dead.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

17  She stood at the foot of the stairs, the baby in her arms, Wade pressed tightly against her, his head hidden in her skirts as the Yankees swarmed through the house, pushing roughly past her up the stairs, dragging furniture onto the front porch, running bayonets and knives into upholstery and digging inside for concealed valuables.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVII