FELL in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 An awed hush fell upon the bystanders.
2 Then she fell over into my lap and I drove on.
3 "g--" He looked up as Tom's broad hand fell sharply on his shoulder.
4 He reached in his pocket and a piece of metal, slung on a ribbon, fell into my palm.
5 The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.
6 It was full of money--that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals' song of it.
7 Wilson's eyes fell upon Tom; he started up on his tiptoes and then would have collapsed to his knees had not Tom held him upright.
8 Up in the city I tried for a while to list the quotations on an interminable amount of stock, then I fell asleep in my swivel-chair.
9 And with this doubt his whole statement fell to pieces and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him after all.
10 Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires.
11 As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.
12 Her eyes fell on Jordan and me with a sort of appeal, as though she realized at last what she was doing--and as though she had never, all along, intended doing anything at all.
13 Gatsby's notoriety, spread about by the hundreds who had accepted his hospitality and so become authorities on his past, had increased all summer until he fell just short of being news.
14 The nature of Mr. Tostoff's composition eluded me, because just as it began my eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes.
15 He took out a pile of shirts and began throwing them, one by one before us, shirts of sheer linen and thick silk and fine flannel which lost their folds as they fell and covered the table in many-colored disarray.
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.