1 His unfinished studies had given form to this sensibility and even in his unhappiest moments field and sky spoke to him with a deep and powerful persuasion.
2 It made a small frightened cheep like a field mouse, and he wondered languidly if it were hurt.
3 He backed his big red horse and then, putting spurs to his side, lifted him easily over the split rail fence into the soft field of Gerald O'Hara's plantation.
4 It was a secret he would never learn, for everyone from Ellen down to the stupidest field hand was in a tacit and kindly conspiracy to keep him believing that his word was law.
5 If they showed no aptitude for any of these trades, they became field hands and, in the opinion of the negroes, they had lost their claim to any social standing at all.
6 Beside him Honey Wilkes, so called because she indiscriminately addressed everyone from her father to the field hands by that endearment, fidgeted and giggled as she called greetings to the arriving guests.
7 He stumped rapidly to the group, waving his cane and shouting and, because he could not hear the voices about him, he soon had undisputed possession of the field.
8 The unfortunate boy had not only been cheated of the love he thought he had won but also of his high hopes of honor and glory on the field of battle.
9 And now, having worked like a field hand, she had to retire decorously when the fun was just beginning.
10 Her thoughts and activities were the same as they had been in the old days, but the field of her activities had widened immensely.
11 It opened up an entirely new field of thought and one that was horrifying.
12 The generals in the field were crying out for fresh troops, and there were fewer and fewer fresh troops to be had.
13 They fed their prisoners on what the soldiers in the field were eating, fat pork and dried peas, and on this diet the Yankees died like flies, sometimes a hundred a day.
14 The place where the Yankees were concentrating was only a few miles southeast of the battle field of Chickamauga.
15 There had been fighting in Tennessee for three years and people were accustomed to the thought of that state as a far-away battle field, almost as far away as Virginia or the Mississippi River.