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The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 7
2 The three Mr. Mumbles bent forward and listened eagerly.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 3
3Listen, Nick; let me tell you what I said when she was born.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 1
4 So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 6
5 I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 1
6 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.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 7
7 I saw Jordan Baker and talked over and around what had happened to us together and what had happened afterward to me, and she lay perfectly still listening in a big chair.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 9
8 Michaelis and this man reached her first but when they had torn open her shirtwaist still damp with perspiration, they saw that her left breast was swinging loose like a flap and there was no need to listen for the heart beneath.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 7
9 Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
The Great GatsbyBy F. Scott Fitzgerald ContextHighlight In Chapter 1