ACRE in Classic Quotes

1  Only one acre was being farmed now where once a hundred had been under the plow.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LVII

2  Gerald closed his eyes and, in the stillness of the unworked acres, he felt that he had come home.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

3  She could not desert Tara; she belonged to the red acres far more than they could ever belong to her.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

4  Yet the serene half-light over Tara's well-kept acres brought a measure of quiet to her disturbed mind.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

5  They looked out across the endless acres of Gerald O'Hara's newly plowed cotton fields toward the red horizon.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

6  Wealth came out of the curving furrows, and arrogance came too--arrogance built on green bushes and the acres of fleecy white.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

7  An dey driv dey cannons an waggins cross de cotton till it plum ruint, cept a few acres over on de creek bottom dat dey din notice.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

8  Old Slattery, who clung persistently to his few acres, in spite of repeated offers from Gerald and John Wilkes, was shiftless and whining.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

9  She straightened her tired back and, looking over the browning autumn fields, she saw next year's crop standing sturdy and green, acre upon acre.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXVI

10  Gradually the plantation widened out, as Gerald bought more acres lying near him, and in time the white house became a reality instead of a dream.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

11  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.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

12  "I'll tear this house down, stone by stone, and burn it and sow every acre with salt before I see either of you put foot over this threshold," she shouted.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXII

13  With the deep hunger of an Irishman who has been a tenant on the lands his people once had owned and hunted, he wanted to see his own acres stretching green before his eyes.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

14  Tom Slattery owned no slaves, and he and his two oldest boys spasmodically worked their few acres of cotton, while the wife and younger children tended what was supposed to be a vegetable garden.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

15  Through the window, in the faint light of the rising moon, Tara stretched before her, negroes gone, acres desolate, barns ruined, like a body bleeding under her eyes, like her own body, slowly bleeding.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

16  There were too many Irish ancestors crowding behind Gerald's shoulders, men who had died on scant acres, fighting to the end rather than leave the homes where they had lived, plowed, loved, begotten sons.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

17  Gerald was on excellent terms with all his neighbors in the County, except the MacIntoshes whose land adjoined his on the left and the Slatterys whose meager three acres stretched on his right along the swamp bottoms between the river and John Wilkes' plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III