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1  I knew right away I made a mistake.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  I knew his whole family history before he left.
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3  She thought I knew a lot because I knew different things from her.
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4  Of course I knew what they were referring to, but I wasn't even vaguely engaged.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  He looked at me sideways--and I knew why Jordan Baker had believed he was lying.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  But I knew I had discovered a man of fine breeding after I talked with him an hour.
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7  He stared at me without a word and I knew I had guessed right about those missing hours.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
8  Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man.
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9  I saw right away he was a fine appearing, gentlemanly young man, and when he told me he was an Oggsford I knew I could use him good.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
10  But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.
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11  From East Egg, then, came the Chester Beckers and the Leeches and a man named Bunsen whom I knew at Yale and Doctor Webster Civet who was drowned last summer up in Maine.
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12  I knew the other clerks and young bond-salesmen by their first names and lunched with them in dark crowded restaurants on little pig sausages and mashed potatoes and coffee.
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13  She looked around after a moment and told me the girl was "common but pretty," and I knew that except for the half hour she'd been alone with Gatsby she wasn't having a good time.
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14  For all I knew he was going to rob the house in a moment; I wouldn't have been surprised to see sinister faces, the faces of "Wolfshiem's people," behind him in the dark shrubbery.
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15  I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.
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