1 But now the Confederate ports were stoppered with Yankee gunboats, only a trickle of blockade-run goods was slipping in from Europe, and the South was desperately trying to manufacture her own war materials.
2 With those precious twin lines of iron in danger, the Confederates left their desperately defended rifle pits and, under the starlight, made a forced march to Resaca by the short, direct road.
3 As his lines grew thinner and he was forced back farther, the General called desperately on Governor Brown for these very men, but the state troops felt reasonably safe.
4 "Oh, Mr. Wilkes," she cried desperately, holding his hand.
5 As wet June days passed into a wetter July and the Confederates, fighting desperately around the entrenched heights, still held Sherman at bay, a wild gaiety took hold of Atlanta.
6 Scarlett was terrified when she realized how important this line had become, how fiercely Sherman would fight to take it, how desperately Hood would fight to defend it.
7 Now they were battles, battles desperately, vainly fought as Johnston fell back toward Atlanta.
8 Atlanta was no longer the gay, the desperately gay place she had loved.
9 "Daytime is enough like a nightmare without my dreaming things," she thought desperately and began hoarding her daily ration to eat it just before she went to sleep.
10 she began desperately, her courage and control breaking.
11 Otherwise she could not have done the things she had done since she was last in Atlanta; otherwise she would not now be contemplating doing what she desperately hoped to do.
12 You took my money when you needed it desperately and you used it.
13 "I won't think of it now," she said desperately, burying her face in the pillow.
14 "If you only weren't such a fool, such a sweet, trusting, simple- minded fool, it wouldn't be so hard," she thought desperately.
15 To keep in power he's been desperately manufacturing Klan outrage stories where none exist, telling of loyal Republicans being hung up by the thumbs and honest darkies lynched for rape.