1 Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroes and eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.
2 They seemed never too busy to drop work for a fish fry, a hunt or a horse race, and scarcely a week went by without its barbecue or ball.
3 Mr. Wilkes always had at least a dozen darkies busy running back and forth with trays to serve the guests.
4 It is too, Melly, and if you weren't always so busy looking for the good in people that haven't got any good in them, you'd see it.
5 There were dozens of war weddings in the County and there was little time for the sorrow of parting, for everyone was too busy and excited for either solemn thoughts or tears.
6 Ellen, busy night and day, doubling the productiveness of Tara to aid the Confederacy, was terrified when her eldest daughter came home from Charleston thin, white and sharp tongued.
7 The town she was now seeing was like a baby grown overnight into a busy, sprawling giant.
8 Even Gerald was busy, for the first time in many years, for he could get no overseer to take Jonas Wilkerson's place and he was riding his own acres.
9 With Ellen too busy for more than a goodnight kiss and Gerald in the fields all day, Scarlett found Tara boring.
10 And as for France, that weak imitation of Napoleon is far too busy establishing the French in Mexico to be bothered with us.
11 In fact he welcomes this war, because it keeps us too busy to run his troops out of Mexico.
12 She was busy with needle and scissors, altering a mourning dress that Mrs. Elsing had lent to Mrs. Meade.
13 When noon came, she put off her apron and sneaked away from the hospital while Mrs. Merriwether was busy writing a letter for a gangling, illiterate mountaineer.
14 It was an imposition on her and she knew that when the wounded came in on the noon train there would be enough work to keep her busy until night-fall--and probably without anything to eat.
15 General Lee can't send him any help because the Yankees are keeping him busy in Virginia.