1 Here and there a farmhouse stood far back among the fields, mute and cold as a grave-stone.
2 Zeena answered in her every-day tone and, warming to the theme, regaled them with several vivid descriptions of intestinal disturbances among her friends and relatives.
3 As he raised himself he suddenly felt Mattie close to him among the shadows.
4 Rather, it was Gerald's compact smallness that made him what he was, for he had learned early that little people must be hardy to survive among large ones.
5 Had Gerald been brawny, he would have gone the way of the other O'Haras and moved quietly and darkly among the rebels against the government.
6 Upon the wooded hills above the river, the dogwood blossoms lay glistening and white, as if snow still lingered among the greenery.
7 The furore she was causing among the men, coupled with the heart burnings of the other girls, would have pleased her enormously at any other time.
8 Her eyes searched the group but Ashley was not among them.
9 Ladies, there will pass among you two of our gallant wounded, with baskets and-- But the rest of his speech was lost in the storm and tumult of clapping hands and cheering voices.
10 I know the gentle rivalry to lead the reels very well and so-- The doctor mopped his brow and cast a quizzical glance at the corner, where his wife sat among the chaperons.
11 They don't need me among their number, either to brighten the record of patriotism or to increase the roll of paupers.
12 There were such a lot of foolish things about life among nice people.
13 She had lived too long among people who dissembled politely not to feel disturbed at hearing her own thoughts put into words.
14 You'd still be the broken-hearted widow of Charles Hamilton and famed for your good deeds among the wounded.
15 At these words a hum rose among those near enough to hear his remark, and the crowd surged, ready to turn and run down Whitehall Street toward headquarters.