EXCITMENT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Gatsby sprang to his feet, vivid with excitement.
2 "There's some bad trouble here," said Tom excitedly.
3 You must remember, old sport, she was very excited this afternoon.
4 As we entered he wheeled excitedly around and examined Jordan from head to foot.
5 It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.
6 It excited him too that many men had already loved Daisy--it increased her value in his eyes.
7 The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
8 Now it was a cool night with that mysterious excitement in it which comes at the two changes of the year.
9 Imagining that I, too, was hurrying toward gayety and sharing their intimate excitement, I wished them well.
10 I was so excited that when I got into a taxi with him I didn't hardly know I wasn't getting into a subway train.
11 Daisy watched him and laughed, her sweet, exciting laugh; a tiny gust of powder rose from her bosom into the air.
12 It passed, and he began to talk excitedly to Daisy, denying everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made.
13 His eyes leaked continuously with excitement and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse grey beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat.
14 Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable inquisitions which spared only the children and the very old--even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.
15 Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
16 Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth--but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered "Listen," a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.
17 The groups change more swiftly, swell with new arrivals, dissolve and form in the same breath--already there are wanderers, confident girls who weave here and there among the stouter and more stable, become for a sharp, joyous moment the center of a group and then excited with triumph glide on through the sea-change of faces and voices and color under the constantly changing light.
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