WITNESS in Classic Quotes

1  The witnesses were strangers called in from the street.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

2  Anything was preferable to being a helpless witness to such pain.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXII

3  She realized she was witnessing a play, a desperate play on which lives hinged.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV

4  "There are always fifty witnesses to prove a Southerner was somewhere he wasn't," said the captain morosely.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLV

5  She would lead him a chase that would make up for even that awful humiliation of the day he witnessed her slapping Ashley.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XIX

6  Melanie sank into a chair, her face pinkening with embarrassment that she had unintentionally witnessed so intimate a scene.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER L

7  Melanie bit her lip and tears came to her eyes, and Mammy standing in the hall, a witness to the scene, scowled and breathed hard.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

8  There was a carefully restrained ferocity in his dark face, a ruthlessness which would have frightened her had she the wits to see it.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXIII

9  She was frightened but not enough to lose her wits and, in an instant, the horse was pulled up and she had Frank's pistol in her hand.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIV

10  Hunger gnawed at her empty stomach again and she said aloud: "As God is my witness, as God is my witness, the Yankees aren't going to lick me."

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXV

11  But please don't forget I was an interested witness to your tender scene with him at Twelve Oaks and something tells me he hasn't changed since then.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI

12  Aunt Pitty, who had been a petrified witness to the whole scene, suddenly slid to the floor in what was one of the few real fainting spells she had ever had.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLIX

13  But now they were split in twain and the town was privileged to witness cousins of the fifth and sixth degree taking sides in the most shattering scandal Atlanta had ever seen.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LV

14  He charmed gatherings there with his wit and seldom needed much urging to recite his "Sword of Lee" or his deathless "Conquered Banner," which never failed to make the ladies cry.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XLI

15  Had Scarlett been possessed of such an anger, she would have been stamping both feet and roaring like Gerald in his finest days, calling on God to witness the accursed duplicity and knavishness of mankind and uttering blood-curdling threats of retaliation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER LV

16  Of all the people in the world to turn up here, this terrible person who had witnessed that scene with Ashley which still gave her nightmares; this odious wretch who ruined girls and was not received by nice people; this despicable man who had said, and with good cause, that she was not a lady.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER IX

17  There was something about the prospect of a struggle of wits with a man--with any man--that put her on her mettle and, after months of battling against countless discouragements, the knowledge that she was at last facing a definite adversary, one whom she might unhorse by her own efforts, gave her a buoyant sensation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV