All 14 Uses of
vehement
in
Gone with the Wind
- If Gerald caught her climbing a fence instead of walking half a mile to a gate, or sitting too late on the front steps with a beau, he castigated her personally and with vehemence, but he did not mention the fact to Ellen or to Mammy.†
Chpt 1.2
- "No," she cried vehemently, jerking away.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- She started to speak, but Mammy shook her head vehemently and raising her apron dabbed at her red eyes.†
Chpt 3.25
- Mammy, in particular, declared vehemently that she had never even been a yard nigger.†
Chpt 3.26
- I won't let them do it, thought Scarlett vehemently.†
Chpt 4.32
- What a fool I am, she thought vehemently.†
Chpt 4.34
- She wasn't a rogue, she told herself vehemently.†
Chpt 4.43
- While she watched him, Archie turned suddenly toward the fire and spat a stream of tobacco juice on it with such vehemence that India, Melanie and Pitty leaped as though a bomb had exploded.†
Chpt 4.45
- From without, houses looked black and silent and wrapped in sleep but, within, voices whispered vehemently into the dawn.†
Chpt 4.46
- Atlanta ladies vehemently told their husbands that they did not care a rap what the Yankees thought.†
Chpt 4.46
- "I hate to hear you talk like that, Ashley," she said vehemently.†
Chpt 5.53
- The soft vehemence of this last ejaculation would have been, upon a man's lips, profanity of no uncertain meaning.†
Chpt 5.55
- Damn him, thought Scarlett, vehemently.†
Chpt 5.57
- It can't be true, she thought vehemently, trying to push back the fear.†
Chpt 5.61
Definition:
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(vehement) marked by extreme intensity -- especially emotion such as anger