1 She rose suddenly from her chair at the sound of creaking wheels in the driveway and then sank down again as they went on around the house to the back yard.
2 Then, wheels ground sharply on the graveled driveway, and the soft murmur of Ellen's voice dismissing the coachman floated into the room.
3 The hard little pain had at last reached Scarlett's throat and she wailed out loud--not, as Pittypat thought, for poor Charlie but because the last sounds of the wheels and the laughter were dying away.
4 The noise came closer, the sound of wheels, the plod of a horse's hooves and voices.
5 When the last sound of carriage wheels had died away and she knew the family was safely out of sight, she slipped quietly into Melanie's room and turned the key in the lock.
6 And let me out of this carriage before I jump over the wheels.
7 Uncertainly, Mose looked from the sergeant to Scarlett and she, splashing through the mud, close to the passing wheels, caught at Moses' stirrup strap.
8 It's almost too small to hold all of you and the wheels are ready to come off with no encouragement.
9 The wheels leaned inward as if their first revolution would make them come off.
10 The shrubs and grass of the lawn were cut to pieces where hooves and wheels and feet had torn frantically back and forth until the soil was churned up.
11 She laid the whip on the tired horse's back and tried to urge him on while the waggling wheels rocked them drunkenly from side to side.
12 Deep ruts and furrows were cut into the road where horses had dragged heavy guns along it and the red gullies on either side were deeply gashed by the wheels.
13 The soft earth was scarred with hoof prints and heavy wheels and the vegetables were mashed into the soil.
14 It went off at a jump and she felt the wheels pass over something soft, something resistant.
15 Yes, you came swiftly, dragging me at your chariot wheels.