All 14 Uses of
inevitable
in
Gone with the Wind
- Oh," cried Scarlett, fresh pain striking her as Gerald's words brought home the terrible inevitability of the truth.†
Chpt 1.2
- All that passion meant to her was servitude to inexplicable male madness, unshared by females, a painful and embarrassing process that led inevitably to the still more painful process of childbirth.†
Chpt 2.11
- Though Scarlett always went home to Tara with a happy heart, she was never sorry when the inevitable letters came from Pitty and Melanie, begging her to return.†
Chpt 2.12 *
- Every morning when Scarlett arose she thanked God for the pale-blue sky and the warm sun, for each day of good weather put off the inevitable time when warm clothing would be needed.†
Chpt 3.26
- But Ashley seemed to mean them and there was a look in his eyes which eluded her—not fear, not apology, but the bracing to a strain which was inevitable and overwhelming.†
Chpt 4.31
- He knew that she took life as it came, opposed her tough-fibered mind to whatever obstacles there might be, fought on with a determination that would not recognize defeat, and kept on fighting even when she saw defeat was inevitable.†
Chpt 4.32
- That night the inevitable hominy and dried peas were on Aunt Pitty's supper table and, as Scarlett ate them, she made a vow that these two dishes would never appear on her table when she had money again.†
Chpt 4.33
- Now they had not only the Bureau agitators and the Carpetbaggers urging them on, but the incitement of whisky as well, and outrages were inevitable.†
Chpt 4.37
- We bow to the inevitable.†
Chpt 4.40
- When trouble comes we bow to the inevitable without any mouthing, and we work and we smile and we bide our time.†
Chpt 4.40
- They always followed a set pattern—first, hard times; next, the political situation; and then, inevitably, the war.†
Chpt 4.41
- It was a fight that could not win but it had, at least, postponed the inevitable.†
Chpt 4.47
- In the hospitals during the war she had seen too many faces wearing this pinched look not to know what it inevitably presaged.†
Chpt 5.61
- The thought of speaking of Melanie now, of making the inevitable arrangements that follow a death made her throat tighten.†
Chpt 5.62
Definition:
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(inevitable) certain to happen (even if one tried to prevent it)