All 26 Uses of
bound
in
Gone with the Wind
- Moreover, Scarlett and her father were bound together by a mutual suppression agreement.†
Chpt 1.2
- Mrs. Merriwether, I'll be bound!" cried Mrs. Meade indignantly.†
Chpt 2.8
- So the ladies felt in duty bound to stretch a point, especially in the case of so intrepid a blockader.†
Chpt 2.12
- You've run away, I'll be bound.†
Chpt 3.17 *
- But for all their apparent insouciance in the face of falling shells and shorter rations, for all their ignoring the Yankees, barely half a mile away, and for all their boundless confidence in the ragged line of gray men in the rifle pits, there pulsed, just below the skin of Atlanta, a wild uncertainty over what the next day would bring.†
Chpt 3.19 (definition 1) *
- Prissy came bounding up the stairs and Scarlett handed the child to her.†
Chpt 3.23 (definition 2) *
- Why had she ever bound herself with such a promise, doubly binding now that Ashley was gone?†
Chpt 3.24
- Her nerves must be shredded if the noise of the well windlass, bound up in her earliest memories, could frighten her.†
Chpt 3.24
- This was all a dream, this smoke-filled dim room, the scrawny girls, Mammy shapeless and huge crouching beside the bed, Dilcey a still bronze image with the sleeping pink morsel against her dark breast—all a dream from which she would awake, to smell bacon frying in the kitchen, hear the throaty laughter of the negroes and the creaking of wagons fieldward bound, and Ellen's gentle insistent hand upon her.†
Chpt 3.24
- The mainspring of his existence was taken away when she died and with it had gone his bounding assurance, his impudence and his restless vitality.†
Chpt 3.26 (definition 2)
- As he lounged up the walk, hand on holster, beady little eyes glancing to right and left, a kaleidoscope of jumbled pictures spun in her mind, stories Aunt Pittypat had whispered of attacks on unprotected women, throat cuttings, houses burned over the heads of dying women, children bayoneted because they cried, all of the unspeakable horrors that lay bound up in the name of "Yankee."†
Chpt 3.26
- As she went up the steps, three at a bound, she saw Suellen and Carreen with split-oak baskets on their arms, running toward the pantry, and Pork tugging none too gently at Gerald's arm, dragging him toward the back porch.†
Chpt 3.27
- Everything which had been part of her earliest memories, everything bound up with the deepest roots in her: "Good-by!†
Chpt 3.27
- It wasn't hide-bound and stick-in-themuddish like the older towns and it had a brash exuberance that matched her own.†
Chpt 3.28
- One boy, on whose face a blond fuzz had just begun to sprout, was dumped on the front porch by a mounted soldier bound for Fayetteville.†
Chpt 3.30
- They're runnin' the assessment up on Tara sky high—higher than any in the County, I'll be bound.†
Chpt 4.31
- A curious sense of lightness, of freedom, pervaded her now that she had finally hardened her heart against all that bound her to the old days and the old Scarlett.†
Chpt 4.32
- It was this knowledge that made life endurable, this knowledge that Ashley, bound by honor, loved her from afar for beautiful things deep buried in her that he alone could see.†
Chpt 4.36
- If you're bound to gad about, I'll drive you.†
Chpt 4.42
- They could be seen at all hours and at all places in and near Atlanta, seldom speaking to each other, obviously disliking each other, but bound together by mutual need, he of money, she of protection.†
Chpt 4.42
- Even now they might be riding wildly through the night, bound for Texas.†
Chpt 4.45
- She did not realize then that with one stroke she had cut forever any fragile tie that still bound her to the old days, to old friends.†
Chpt 5.49
- And there were other people in Atlanta who would come to her parties, other people far more congenial than those hide-bound old hens.†
Chpt 5.49
- She said and did exactly what she pleased and, in practically no time, her insolence knew no bounds.†
Chpt 5.49 (definition 1)
- His pride in her beauty, her curls, her dimples, her graceful little gestures was boundless.†
Chpt 5.59 (definition 1)
- When Rhett finally decided that the pony knew his business well enough to trust Bonnie upon him, the child's excitement was boundless.†
Chpt 5.59 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (bound as in: out of bounds) a boundary or limit
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(2) (bound as in: The deer bound across the trail.) to leap or jump
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(bound as in: south-bound lanes) traveling in a particular direction or to a specific location