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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 "Several years," he answered in a gratified way.
2 "Oh, I've been in several things," he corrected himself.
3 Michaelis and several other men were with him--first four or five men, later two or three men.
4 She was effectually prevented, but she wasn't on speaking terms with her family for several weeks.
5 The minister glanced several times at his watch so I took him aside and asked him to wait for half an hour.
6 I doubted that though there were several she could have married at a nod of her head but I pretended to be surprised.
7 Several times he turned his head and looked back for their car, and if the traffic delayed them he slowed up until they came into sight.
8 Several old copies of "Town Tattle" lay on the table together with a copy of "Simon Called Peter" and some of the small scandal magazines of Broadway.
9 He was saying some last word to her but the eagerness in his manner tightened abruptly into formality as several people approached him to say goodbye.
10 Reading over what I have written so far I see I have given the impression that the events of three nights several weeks apart were all that absorbed me.
11 Sitting on Tom's lap Mrs. Wilson called up several people on the telephone; then there were no cigarettes and I went out to buy some at the drug store on the corner.
12 At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.
13 He had seen me several times and had intended to call on me long before but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it--signed Jay Gatsby in a majestic hand.
14 But when I'd shouted "Hello" several times in vain an argument broke out behind a partition and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes.
15 For several weeks I didn't see him or hear his voice on the phone--mostly I was in New York, trotting around with Jordan and trying to ingratiate myself with her senile aunt--but finally I went over to his house one Sunday afternoon.
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.