1 It was the consecrated formula, and he expected it to be followed, as usual, by her rising and going down to supper.
2 She went out of the kitchen and Mattie, rising, began to clear the dishes from the table.
3 Ethan, rising on his elbow, watched the landscape whiten and shape itself under the sculpture of the moon.
4 Across its frozen surface, from the farther bank, a single hill rising against the western sun threw the long conical shadow which gave the lake its name.
5 Ellen closed her eyes and began praying, her voice rising and falling, lulling and soothing.
6 "I couldn't," said Pittypat weakly, rising to her feet.
7 And there's the long view down the road to the river, across the cotton fields, and the mist rising from the bottom lands in the twilight.
8 "I'm always your little girl," Scarlett would say and bury her head upon Ellen's breast, her guilt rising up to accuse her.
9 The fringe of women on foot and in carriages grew greater and greater, and the heat of the close-packed bodies and dust rising from restless feet were suffocating.
10 "Don't go," he called, rising in his saddle and holding up his hand.
11 Always the rising chorus swelled: "We are hungry, your wife, your babies, your parents."
12 Suspense, worry, sorrow, hunger and the torment of rising, falling, rising hope was wearing that skin thin.
13 Through the window, in the faint light of the rising moon, Tara stretched before her, negroes gone, acres desolate, barns ruined, like a body bleeding under her eyes, like her own body, slowly bleeding.
14 I am tired," said Scarlett, rising and meeting Mammy's eyes with a childlike, helpless look, "and I'm afraid I'm catching a cold too.
15 Shouldering the shell-pitted houses patched with bits of old lumber and smoke-blackened bricks, the fine homes of the Carpetbaggers and war profiteers were rising, with mansard roofs, gables and turrets, stained-glass windows and wide lawns.