HEAT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "The thing to do is to forget about the heat," said Tom impatiently.
2 In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
3 On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat, one small sail crawled slowly toward the fresher sea.
4 Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, moulding its senselessness into forms.
5 We had luncheon in the dining-room, darkened, too, against the heat, and drank down nervous gayety with the cold ale.
6 Then she remembered the heat and sat down guiltily on the couch just as a freshly laundered nurse leading a little girl came into the room.
7 The relentless beating heat was beginning to confuse me and I had a bad moment there before I realized that so far his suspicions hadn't alighted on Tom.
8 As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.
9 Jordan and Tom and I got into the front seat of Gatsby's car, Tom pushed the unfamiliar gears tentatively and we shot off into the oppressive heat leaving them out of sight behind.
10 He had slept through the heat until after five, when he strolled over to the garage and found George Wilson sick in his office--really sick, pale as his own pale hair and shaking all over.
11 The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist, and then, as her newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed despairingly into deep heat with a desolate cry.