Both Uses of
volatile
in
Gone with the Wind
- Her volatile spirits shot up from deepest depression to excited happiness.†
Chpt 1.4 *
- The boys followed her to the wagon and assisted her in, courtly for all their rags, gay with the volatile Fontaine gaiety, but with the picture of their destitution in her eyes, she shivered as she drove away from Mimosa.†
Chpt 3.29
Definition:
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(volatile as in: a volatile situation) quick to change; or emotionally explosive