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 Current Search - Certainly in The Great Gatsby
1  "They certainly look cool," he said, with visible tension.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  Doubtless there was a certain struggle and a certain relief.
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3  The next day was broiling, almost the last, certainly the warmest, of the summer.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  He might have despised himself, for he had certainly taken her under false pretenses.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  Amid the welcome confusion of cups and cakes a certain physical decency established itself.
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6  Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  After that I felt a certain shame for Gatsby--one gentleman to whom I telephoned implied that he had got what he deserved.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing--my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.
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9  His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  About half way between West Egg and New York the motor-road hastily joins the railroad and runs beside it for a quarter of a mile, so as to shrink away from a certain desolate area of land.
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11  I'd been writing letters once a week and signing them: "Love, Nick," and all I could think of was how, when that certain girl played tennis, a faint mustache of perspiration appeared on her upper lip.
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12  I couldn't guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking but I doubt if even Miss Baker who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy skepticism was able utterly to put this fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency out of mind.
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13  So naturally Michaelis tried to find out what had happened, but Wilson wouldn't say a word--instead he began to throw curious, suspicious glances at his visitor and ask him what he'd been doing at certain times on certain days.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7