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1  Throwing a regal homecoming glance around the neighborhood, Mrs. Wilson gathered up her dog and her other purchases and went haughtily in.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
2  He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
3  And the Hornbeams and the Willie Voltaires and a whole clan named Blackbuck who always gathered in a corner and flipped up their noses like goats at whosoever came near.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
4  The "death car" as the newspapers called it, didn't stop; it came out of the gathering darkness, wavered tragically for a moment and then disappeared around the next bend.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
5  He informed me that he was in the "artistic game" and I gathered later that he was a photographer and had made the dim enlargement of Mrs. Wilson's mother which hovered like an ectoplasm on the wall.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
6  Self consciously, with his authoritative arms breaking the way, we pushed through the still gathering crowd, passing a hurried doctor, case in hand, who had been sent for in wild hope half an hour ago.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
7  Those who went farther than Chicago would gather in the old dim Union Station at six o'clock of a December evening with a few Chicago friends already caught up into their own holiday gayeties to bid them a hasty goodbye.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9