1 I'll go like a queen granting favors.
2 As for Uncle Peter, he took it for granted that Scarlett had come to stay.
3 Let's grant that he does the best he can but I don't imagine he's much help.
4 My home is gone and all the money that I so took for granted I never realized I had it.
5 This caused some secret envy among women whose husbands took offspring for granted, long before the children were christened.
6 So still was her face as she stared at Stuart that he, never analytic, took it for granted that she was merely surprised and very interested.
7 They took it for granted that she was imbued with their own patriotic fervor and would have been shocked to know how slight an interest in the war she had.
8 Scarlett O'Hara, with the County at her feet, a hundred slaves to do her bidding, the wealth of Tara like a wall behind her and doting parents anxious to grant any desire of her heart.
9 For years she had had her back against the stone wall of Rhett's love and had taken it as much for granted as she had taken Melanie's love, flattering herself that she drew her strength from herself alone.
10 But Carreen, deeper and deeper immersed in her prayer book and every day losing more of her touch with the world of realities, treated Will as gently as a brother and took him as much for granted as she did Pork.
11 Shocked at first by his rudeness, the ladies finally became accustomed to him and, as he was so silent, except for intermittent explosions of tobacco juice, they took him as much for granted as the horses he drove and forgot his very existence.
12 She sat on the divan in the parlor, holding her going-away gift for him in her lap, waiting while he said good-by to Melanie, praying that when he did come down the stairs he would be alone and she might be granted by Heaven a few moments alone with him.