I'm bored today so searched for it (in Australia's Gutenberg PDF file). You're right, Michy, I only found the exact phrase once. This occurs as Scarlett is making her way back to Tara with Melanie and Prissy, after Rhett has left them:
I could have sworn I'd seen it one other place, but it doesn't come up in the search. There are plenty of passages that recall the imagery and that refer to their way of life being gone, though. I might have been thinking of this line from chapter 7, for example:Was Tara still standing? Or was Tara also gone with the wind which had swept through Georgia?
I'll save the rest of my thoughts for the April discussion thread.But the South was aflame with war, events roared along as swiftly as if carried by a mighty wind and the slow tempo of the old days was gone.