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1  "Oh, I will," he broke out hastily.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
2  "Look here, old sport," he broke out surprisingly.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
3  "Civilization's going to pieces," broke out Tom violently.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
4  "You're acting like a little boy," I broke out impatiently.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
5  "I don't see the idea of going to town," broke out Tom savagely.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
6  All right," broke in Tom quickly, "I'm perfectly willing to go to town.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
7  Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
8  While his neighbor was trying to persuade him a violent racket broke out overhead.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
9  The effort of answering broke the rhythm of his rocking--for a moment he was silent.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
10  "Well, I tried to swing the wheel----" He broke off, and suddenly I guessed at the truth.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
11  He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
12  The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
13  As my train emerged from the tunnel into sunlight, only the hot whistles of the National Biscuit Company broke the simmering hush at noon.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
14  "Chester, I think you could do something with her," she broke out, but Mr. McKee only nodded in a bored way and turned his attention to Tom.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
15  First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
16  When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
17  Some one started to ask me questions but I broke away and going upstairs looked hastily through the unlocked parts of his desk--he'd never told me definitely that his parents were dead.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
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