All 7 Uses of
admonition
in
Gone with the Wind
- Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- He left home with his mother's hasty kiss on his cheek and her fervent Catholic blessing in his ears, and his father's parting admonition, "Remember who ye are and don't be taking nothing off no man."†
Chpt 1.3
- Ellen, by soft-voiced admonition, and Mammy, by constant carping, labored to inculcate in her the qualities that would make her truly desirable as a wife.†
Chpt 1.3
- But now Gerald had bawled the words "Fort Sumter," and every man present forgot his host's admonition.†
Chpt 1.6
- And perhaps dear Scarlett could find some ease for her sorrow, as Melly is doing, by nursing our brave boys in the hospitals here—and, of course, Melly and I are longing to see the dear baby…… " So Scarlett's trunk was packed again with her mourning clothes and off she went to Atlanta with Wade Hampton and his nurse Prissy, a headful of admonitions as to her conduct from Ellen and Mammy and a hundred dollars in Confederate bills from Gerald.†
Chpt 1.7
- Rebelliously she leaned her elbows on the counter and looked at the crowd, flouting Mammy's oft-repeated admonition against leaning on elbows and making them ugly and wrinkled.†
Chpt 2.9
- But now, Scarlett pushed that admonition into the back of her mind.†
Chpt 3.28
Definition:
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(admonition) a warning or bit of advice -- such as "Don't drink and drive."