PORCH in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.
2 "I'm delighted to see you," said Gatsby standing on his porch.
3 It was nine o'clock when we finished breakfast and went out on the porch.
4 As I tiptoed from the porch I heard my taxi feeling its way along the dark road toward the house.
5 The rest of us walked out on the porch, where Sloane and the lady began an impassioned conversation aside.
6 As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases.
7 Jordan's party were calling impatiently to her from the porch but she lingered for a moment to shake hands.
8 Tom stopped beside the porch and looked up at the second floor where two windows bloomed with light among the vines.
9 She must have seen something of this in my expression for she turned abruptly away and ran up the porch steps into the house.
10 When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
11 Crossing the porch where we had dined that June night three months before I came to a small rectangle of light which I guessed was the pantry window.
12 Her porch was bright with the bought luxury of star-shine; the wicker of the settee squeaked fashionably as she turned toward him and he kissed her curious and lovely mouth.
13 A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
14 Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
15 The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold, and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.
16 Tom and Miss Baker, with several feet of twilight between them strolled back into the library, as if to a vigil beside a perfectly tangible body, while trying to look pleasantly interested and a little deaf I followed Daisy around a chain of connecting verandas to the porch in front.