1 He started down the road toward their house, but at the end of a few yards he pulled up sharply, the blood in his face.
2 In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father.
3 Gerald let go of his daughter's arm and turned, peering sharply into her face.
4 Then, wheels ground sharply on the graveled driveway, and the soft murmur of Ellen's voice dismissing the coachman floated into the room.
5 Scarlett scowled, started to speak sharply and then caught herself.
6 Honey's nervously obvious desire to be attractive to every man in sight contrasted sharply with her father's poise, and Scarlett had the thought that perhaps there was something in what Mrs. Tarleton said, after all.
7 Neither of the visiting ladies had even mentioned her name, and they turned and looked sharply at her.
8 She was tired from standing on her feet all morning and irritable because Mrs. Merriwether had scolded her sharply for sitting on a soldier's bed while she dressed his wounded arm.
9 Then she heard an ominous sound in the driveway, outside the window, a sound that brought home to her even more sharply the imminence of Ashley's departure.
10 Now and again, the quiet was broken sharply by the crack-cracking of musket fire in the last line of defenses.
11 And, because he always seemed underfoot when she was most weary and worried, she often spoke sharply to him.
12 At the thought of the kitchen, rage suddenly leaped up in Scarlett's breast, so sharply that it jabbed at her heart like a knife thrust, and fear fell away before her overpowering fury.
13 "Well, speak up," said Grandma, looking sharply at her.
14 He swung around sharply, covered the side lawn in three leaps and she put him across the four-foot hedge as if she were on the hunting field.
15 Then Cathleen flapped the bridle reins sharply and the old mule moved off.