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1  At least---- He fumbled with a series of beginnings.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
2  'All right,' says Rosy and begins to get up and I pulled him down in his chair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
3  It was the only compliment I ever gave him, because I disapproved of him from beginning to end.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
4  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.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
5  And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees--just as things grow in fast movies--I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
6  He had changed it at the age of seventeen and at the specific moment that witnessed the beginning of his career--when he saw Dan Cody's yacht drop anchor over the most insidious flat on Lake Superior.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1