SIGHT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 We waited for her down the road and out of sight.
2 For a while I lost sight of Jordan Baker, and then in midsummer I found her again.
3 As the waiter brought my change I caught sight of Tom Buchanan across the crowded room.
4 Perhaps I am, but I have a--almost a second sight, sometimes, that tells me what to do.
5 Eckleburg's faded eyes came into sight down the road, I remembered Gatsby's caution about gasoline.
6 Several times he turned his head and looked back for their car, and if the traffic delayed them he slowed up until they came into sight.
7 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.
8 The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing.
9 The friends looked out at us with the tragic eyes and short upper lips of south-eastern Europe, and I was glad that the sight of Gatsby's splendid car was included in their somber holiday.
10 This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it--I had no sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
11 Occasionally a line of grey cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-grey men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud which screens their obscure operations from your sight.