1 Gatsby's eyes opened and closed.
2 It had seemed as close as a star to the moon.
3 Mr. Sloane murmured something close to her ear.
4 She walked close to Gatsby, touching his coat with her hand.
5 He was reluctant to close the book, reading each item aloud and then looking eagerly at me.
6 But Wilson stood there a long time, his face close to the window pane, nodding into the twilight.
7 It started because she passed so close to some workmen that our fender flicked a button on one man's coat.
8 The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all.
9 He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it.
10 Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom.
11 Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace.
12 As Gatsby closed the door of "the Merton College Library" I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.
13 The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
14 A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity--except his wife, who moved close to Tom.
15 She wanted her life shaped now, immediately--and the decision must be made by some force--of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality--that was close at hand.
16 It was sharply different from the West where an evening was hurried from phase to phase toward its close in a continually disappointed anticipation or else in sheer nervous dread of the moment itself.
17 No--Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men.
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