1 The neat wooden-paneled fence had been newly painted white and the front yard it inclosed was yellow starred with the last jonquils of the season.
2 Even the cheapest cotton goods had skyrocketed in price and ladies were regretfully making their old dresses do another season.
3 Hoops in Paris were wider this season and skirts were shorter.
4 There was universal rejoicing in that holiday season, rejoicing and thankfulness that the tide was turning.
5 The army, driven back into Virginia, went into winter quarters on the Rapidan--a tired, depleted army since the defeat at Gettysburg-- and as the Christmas season approached, Ashley came home on furlough.
6 One afternoon in June when everyone at Tara was assembled on the back porch eagerly watching Pork cut the first half-ripe watermelon of the season, they heard hooves on the gravel of the front drive.
7 Hams in wine, pressed duck, pate de foie gras, rare fruits in and out of season, were spread in profusion.
8 In consequence of this hint, Lily found herself the centre of that feminine solicitude which envelops a young woman in the mating season.
9 She usually contrived to avoid being at home during the season of domestic renewal.
10 Meanwhile the holidays had gone by and the season was beginning.
11 This particular season Mrs. Peniston would have characterized as that in which everybody "felt poor" except the Welly Brys and Mr. Simon Rosedale.
12 But he was prompt to perceive that the general dulness of the season afforded him an unusual opportunity to shine, and he set about with patient industry to form a background for his growing glory.
13 She felt that the moment was tremendous, and remembered suddenly that Mrs. Peniston's black brocade, with the cut jet fringe, would have been hers at the end of the season.
14 Nor was she without pale glimpses of her own world, especially since the breaking-up of the Newport season had set the social current once more toward Long Island.
15 If one were not a part of the season's fixed routine, one swung unsphered in a void of social non-existence.