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1  His mouth dropped open suddenly.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
2  I ought to have dropped you in West Egg, Nick.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  The rain cooled about half-past three to a damp mist through which occasional thin drops swam like dew.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  But evidently he was not addressing me for he dropped my hand and covered Gatsby with his expressive nose.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Half a dozen fingers pointed at the amputated wheel--he stared at it for a moment and then looked upward as though he suspected that it had dropped from the sky.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  Then he drifted back to Lake Superior, and he was still searching for something to do on the day that Dan Cody's yacht dropped anchor in the shallows along shore.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  His eyes would drop slowly from the swinging light to the laden table by the wall and then jerk back to the light again and he gave out incessantly his high horrible call.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  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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