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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 The sister Catherine sat down beside me on the couch.
3 In its deep gloom we sat down side by side on a wicker settee.
4 "Come to lunch some day," he suggested, as we groaned down in the elevator.
5 "We've got to beat them down," whispered Daisy, winking ferociously toward the fervent sun.
6 The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
7 "We ought to plan something," yawned Miss Baker, sitting down at the table as if she were getting into bed.
8 There was so much to read for one thing and so much fine health to be pulled down out of the young breath-giving air.
9 When she moved about there was an incessant clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down upon her arms.
10 It was the kind of voice that the ear follows up and down as if each speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.
11 Looked at from a distance however the hen resolved itself into a bonnet and the countenance of a stout old lady beamed down into the room.
12 She sat down, glanced searchingly at Miss Baker and then at me and continued: "I looked outdoors for a minute and it's very romantic outdoors."
13 At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.
14 Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.
15 The airedale--undoubtedly there was an airedale concerned in it somewhere though its feet were startlingly white--changed hands and settled down into Mrs. Wilson's lap, where she fondled the weather-proof coat with rapture.
16 When I came back they had disappeared so I sat down discreetly in the living room and read a chapter of "Simon Called Peter"--either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things because it didn't make any sense to me.
17 His family were enormously wealthy--even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach--but now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.
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