PLANTATION in Classic Quotes

1  The plantation clearings and miles of cotton fields smiled up to a warm sun, placid, complacent.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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2  Her father had ridden over to Twelve Oaks, the Wilkes plantation, that afternoon to offer to buy Dilcey, the broad wife of his valet, Pork.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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3  Although born to the ease of plantation life, waited on hand and foot since infancy, the faces of the three on the porch were neither slack nor soft.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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4  He backed his big red horse and then, putting spurs to his side, lifted him easily over the split rail fence into the soft field of Gerald O'Hara's plantation.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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5  Beatrice Tarleton was a busy woman, having on her hands not only a large cotton plantation, a hundred negroes and eight children, but the largest horse-breeding farm in the state as well.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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6  The whitewashed brick plantation house seemed an island set in a wild red sea, a sea of spiraling, curving, crescent billows petrified suddenly at the moment when the pink-tipped waves were breaking into surf.

Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
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