MOURN in Classic Quotes

1  Gerald looked mournfully at his daughter.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

2  Pitty would probably make matters worse, for she honestly mourned Frank.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLVII

3  And to think I'll never wear that color again, not even when I do get out of mourning.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

4  Finally he started slowly, the wagon creaking and the cow lowing mournfully at every step.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIV

5  Probably telling him she was in mourning and it was impossible for her to appear on the floor.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

6  That is everybody except her and Pittypat and Melly and the other unfortunates in town who were in mourning.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

7  The idea of appearing publicly at a social gathering while in mourning was so unheard of she was bewildered.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

8  I will pass over the impropriety of your appearing publicly while in mourning, realizing your warm desire to be of assistance to the hospital.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER X

9  Scarlett stood on the lower step of the train, a pale pretty figure in her black mourning dress, her crepe veil fluttering almost to her heels.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII

10  Just a little over a year ago, she was dancing and wearing bright clothes instead of this dark mourning and was practically engaged to three boys.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

11  Now that his body's gone to join his heart, I don't see that we got reason to mourn, unless we're pretty damned selfish, and I'm sayin it who loved him like he was my own pa.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XL

12  A widow had to wear hideous black dresses without even a touch of braid to enliven them, no flower or ribbon or lace or even jewelry, except onyx mourning brooches or necklaces made from the deceased's hair.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

13  Scarlett's first thought was one of deep thankfulness that mourning forbade her wearing her precious earbobs and the heavy gold chain that had been Grandma Robillard's and the gold and black enameled bracelets and the garnet brooch.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

14  Careless of the disapproval of Aunt Pitty's friends, she behaved as she had behaved before her marriage, went to parties, danced, went riding with soldiers, flirted, did everything she had done as a girl, except stop wearing mourning.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XII

15  Here she sat like a crow with hot black taffeta to her wrists and buttoned up to her chin, with not even a hint of lace or braid, not a jewel except Ellen's onyx mourning brooch, watching tacky- looking girls hanging on the arms of good-looking men.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

16  So Scarlett's trunk was packed again with her mourning clothes and off she went to Atlanta with Wade Hampton and his nurse Prissy, a headful of admonitions as to her conduct from Ellen and Mammy and a hundred dollars in Confederate bills from Gerald.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VII

17  Scarlett saw Melanie standing by her and, with a surge of dislike, she realized that the fly in the ointment of Atlanta would be this slight little person in black mourning dress, her riotous dark curls subdued to matronly smoothness and a loving smile of welcome and happiness on her heart-shaped face.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER VIII