All 16 Uses of
emerge
in
Gone with the Wind
- Mammy emerged from the hall, a huge old woman with the small, shrewd eyes of an elephant.†
Chpt 1.2 *
- As a child, she often had crept to the door and, peeping through the tiniest crack, had seen Ellen emerge from the dark room, where Gerald's snores were rhythmic and untroubled, into the flickering light of an upheld candle, her medicine case under her arm, her hair smoothed neatly place, and no button on her basque unlooped.†
Chpt 1.3
- She paused in the hall to speak to friends and to greet India who was emerging from the back of the house, her hair untidy and tiny beads of perspiration on her forehead.†
Chpt 1.6
- The reality was the blushing Charles, emerging from her dressing room in his nightshirt, avoiding the startled look she gave him over the high-pulled sheet.†
Chpt 1.7
- That night after Mammy had helped her undress and had departed and Charles had emerged shyly from the dressing room, wondering if he was to spend a second night in the horsehair chair, she burst into tears.†
Chpt 1.7
- As they passed a rambling green clapboard house, a little black girl posted on the front steps cried, "Hyah she come," and Dr. Meade and his wife and little thirteen-year-old Phil emerged, calling greetings.†
Chpt 2.8
- Then you married and wore dull-colored dresses and had babies that ruined your waist line and sat in corners at dances with other sober matrons and only emerged to dance with your husband or with old gentlemen who stepped on your feet.†
Chpt 2.9
- But to Scarlett, newly emerged from the chrysalis of widowhood, all the war meant was a time of gaiety and excitement.†
Chpt 2.12
- After tilts with him from which she seldom emerged the victor she vowed he was impossible, ill-bred and no gentleman and she would have nothing more to do with him.†
Chpt 2.12
- At the onset of the war, he had emerged from obscurity with enough money to buy a small swift boat and now, when blockaded goods realized two thousand per cent on each cargo, he owned four boats.†
Chpt 2.12
- He stood with military straightness in his old uniform, his pistol in its worn holster, his battered scabbard smartly slapping his high boots, his tarnished spurs dully gleaming—Major Ashley Wilkes, C.S.A. The habit of command sat upon him now, a quiet air of self-reliance and authority, and grim lines were beginning to emerge about his mouth.†
Chpt 2.15
- Then she saw a form, shadowy in the dimness, emerging from the blackness of the front veranda and standing at the top of the steps.†
Chpt 3.24
- There was a scuffle of feet and a dark figure emerged from the cave of the front hall.†
Chpt 3.24
- She wanted to delay her social activities until the day when the house was finished and she could emerge as the mistress of Atlanta's largest mansion, the hostess of the town's most elaborate entertainments.†
Chpt 5.49
- Out of the welter of rapture and anger and heartbreak and hurt pride that he had left, depression emerged to sit upon her shoulder like a carrion crow.†
Chpt 5.56
- She had gone back to Tara once in fear and defeat and she had emerged from its sheltering walls strong and armed for victory.†
Chpt 5.63
Definition:
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(emerge) to come out, or to appear