1 I'm mighty glad Georgia waited till after Christmas before it seceded or it would have ruined the Christmas parties, too.
2 Bought her I did, and the price has ruined me.
3 "But she was ruined just the same," she hissed back.
4 If you didn't do these things, the other matrons talked about you and then your reputation was ruined and your family disgraced.
5 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.
6 The road down to the river lay red and scorching between the ruined cotton fields.
7 No," said Scarlett, "and now most of it is ruined.
8 For a swift instant there went through her memory again the horrors of her last night in Atlanta, the ruined homes that dotted the countryside, all the stories of rape and torture and murder.
9 Impotent rage quelled what little fear was left in her heart as she stood helpless while they plundered and stole and ruined.
10 And, above the ruined town, the buzzards splotched the wintry sky with graceful, sinister bodies.
11 When he was able to totter about the house, he turned his hands to weaving baskets of split oak and mending the furniture ruined by the Yankees.
12 And now I've lost my temper and probably ruined everything.
13 Of course, she had ruined any hope of marriage but, even in her despair, she was glad.
14 The bluntness of his question ruined all hopes of leading up to the matter in any circuitous and sentimental way.
15 Scarlett was so bewildered and infuriated at these slights that the party was utterly ruined for her.