VOICE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 My voice seemed unnaturally loud across the garden.
2 His voice faded off and Tom glanced impatiently around the garage.
3 The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
4 Finally he got up and informed me in an uncertain voice that he was going home.
5 "No, it's not exactly a police dog," said the man with disappointment in his voice.
6 I looked back at my cousin who began to ask me questions in her low, thrilling voice.
7 "The last one was the one I met you at," answered the girl, in an alert, confident voice.
8 His voice was solemn as if the memory of that sudden extinction of a clan still haunted him.
9 His speaking voice, a gruff husky tenor, added to the impression of fractiousness he conveyed.
10 Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all--and yet there's something in that voice of hers.
11 As if his absence quickened something within her Daisy leaned forward again, her voice glowing and singing.
12 There was the boom of a bass drum, and the voice of the orchestra leader rang out suddenly above the echolalia of the garden.
13 The instant her voice broke off, ceasing to compel my attention, my belief, I felt the basic insincerity of what she had said.
14 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.
15 The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean--then the shrill voice of Mrs. McKee called me back into the room.
16 For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened--then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.
17 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.
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