1 The proprietor and two clerks stood on the sidewalk with armfuls of bolts of cotton cloth they had been displaying.
2 It was almost impossible to obtain these small luxuries now--ladies were wearing hand-whittled wooden hairpins and covering acorns with cloth for buttons--and Pitty lacked the moral stamina to refuse them.
3 Melanie looked sad but tranquil, though tears dropped down on the cloth she held in her hands.
4 About the blue cloth, when it comes to a choice between having holes in your britches or patching them with pieces of a captured Yankee uniform--well, there just isn't any choice.
5 She watched the swell of his powerful shoulders against the cloth with a fascination that was disturbing, a little frightening.
6 Mammy cried silently as she sponged the gaunt bodies, using the remnant of an old apron as a cloth.
7 Automatically, she dodged behind the curtain and peered fascinated at him through the dim folds of the cloth, so startled that the breath went out of her lungs with a gasp.
8 "Thank God, I'm not that modest," thought Scarlett, feeling rather than seeing Melanie's agony of embarrassment, as she wrapped the ragged cloth about the shattered face.
9 There was a semblance of order in the front of the store, where tall shelves rose into the gloom stacked with bright bolts of cloth, china, cooking utensils and notions.
10 As she did so, the woman paused in her work and looked up curiously, resting her clenched red fists on the wet cloth she had just drawn from her pail.
11 A rocker had a back like a lyre, a near-leather seat imitating tufted cloth, and arms like Scotch Presbyterian lions; with knobs, scrolls, shields, and spear-points on unexpected portions of the chair.
12 Today, in reeking early August, she wore a man's cap, a skinny fur like a dead cat, a necklace of imitation pearls, a scabrous satin blouse, and a thick cloth skirt hiked up in front.
13 Her fingers tightened about his thumb as she perceived the hot low room, the pounding of pressing-irons, the reek of scorched cloth, and Erik among giggling gnomes.
14 She noted a figure in a rusty coat and a cloth cap.
15 Wrapping myself in my shaggy jacket of the cloth called bearskin, I fought my way against the stubborn storm.