BIG in Classic Quotes

1  Her waist is as big as a cow's.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

2  And Melly was just a big enough fool not to see through him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

3  Went out in the Seminole War and was a big enough fool to go to the Mexican War, too.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

4  The big house burned a year ago and the fields are growing up in brush and seedling pine.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III

5  They were lonely and often frightened at night in the big house, and she was so brave she gave them courage.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

6  Scarlett knew that the fragrance carried on the faint breeze came from the grove of great oaks in the rear of the big house.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

7  She and Melanie were alone in a big house "and without male protection," wrote Miss Pittypat, "now that dear Charlie has gone."

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

8  Every hotel, boarding house and private residence was crammed with visitors who had come to be near wounded relatives in the big Atlanta hospitals.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

9  He's a small farmer, not a big planter, and if the boys thought enough of him to elect him lieutenant, then it's not for any darky to talk impudent about him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

10  He backed his big red horse and then, putting spurs to his side, lifted him easily over the split rail fence into the soft field of Gerald O'Hara's plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

11  Gerald rode beside the carriage on his big hunter, warm with brandy and pleased with himself for having gotten through with the unpleasant business of Wilkerson so speedily.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER V

12  If she had to listen to another word, she'd rush in and pull out Honey's straggly pale hair in big handfuls and spit on Melanie Hamilton to show her just what she thought of her charity.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VI

13  The big horse reached the fence, gathered himself and soared over as effortlessly as a bird, his rider yelling enthusiastically, his crop beating the air, his white curls jerking out behind him.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER II

14  The twins' horses were hitched in the driveway, big animals, red as their masters' hair; and around the horses' legs quarreled the pack of lean, nervous possum hounds that accompanied Stuart and Brent wherever they went.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

15  The big brute--he's a grand horse, Scarlett; you must tell your pa to come over and see him right away--he'd already bitten a hunk out of his groom on the way down here and he'd trampled two of Ma's darkies who met the train at Jonesboro.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER I

16  Carreen, sitting on a hassock under the big lamp, was deep in the romance of a girl who had taken the veil after her lover's death and, with silent tears of enjoyment oozing from her eyes, was pleasurably picturing herself in a white coif.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IV

17  The Wilkeses, the Calverts, the Tarletons, the Fontaines, all smiled when the small figure on the big white horse galloped up their driveways, smiled and signaled for tall glasses in which a pony of Bourbon had been poured over a teaspoon of sugar and a sprig of crushed mint.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER III