BEATS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Gatsby's foot beat a short, restless tattoo and Tom eyed him suddenly.
2 His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy's white face came up to his own.
3 So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
4 "We've got to beat them down," whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.
5 Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.
6 Her voice struggled on through the heat, beating against it, moulding its senselessness into forms.
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 The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.