CHRISTMAS in Classic Quotes

1  She had not heard from Frank Kennedy since Christmas.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIX

2  It was now in the hands of the tailor and Melanie was hurrying him to have it ready by Christmas morning.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

3  She had a Christmas present for Ashley, but it paled in insignificance beside the glory of Melanie's gray coat.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

4  "If you'll all come into the parlor, I'll sing you some Christmas carols," said Melanie, glad to change the subject.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

5  But tonight she, like Suellen and Carreen, was doing everything possible to make the soldiers enjoy their Christmas Eve.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

6  I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would have ruined the Christmas parties, too.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

7  In slave days, it was something they never tasted except at Christmas, when each one received a "drap" along with his gift.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII

8  Ashley came home four days before Christmas, with a group of the County boys also on furlough, a sadly diminished group since Gettysburg.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

9  That coat for Ashley was a sore subject with Scarlett, for she wished so ardently that she and not Melanie were bestowing it as a Christmas gift.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

10  At Christmas time Frank Kennedy and a small troop from the commissary department jogged up to Tara on a futile hunt for grain and animals for the army.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

11  The horse looked young and well fed, but Frank looked far older than his years, older than on that Christmas eve when he had been at Tara with his men.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXV

12  Southerners were as enthusiastic visitors as they were hosts, and there was nothing unusual in relatives coming to spend the Christmas holidays and remaining until July.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

13  It did not seem possible that war had swept over them twice, that they were living in a ravaged country, close to the border of starvation, when this old sweet Christmas hymn was being sung.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII

14  Scarlett had made her plans to spend Christmas at Tara, but after Ashley's telegram came no power on earth, not even a direct command from the disappointed Ellen, could drag her away from Atlanta.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

15  The army, driven back into Virginia, went into winter quarters on the Rapidan--a tired, depleted army since the defeat at Gettysburg-- and as the Christmas season approached, Ashley came home on furlough.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

16  The week had passed swiftly, like a dream, a dream fragrant with the smell of pine boughs and Christmas trees, bright with little candles and home-made tinsel, a dream where minutes flew as rapidly as heartbeats.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

17  For all their dirty beards and tatters they were a well-bred crowd, full of pleasant small talk, jokes and compliments and very glad to be spending Christmas Eve in a big house, surrounded by pretty women as they had been accustomed to do in days long past.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII