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1  One afternoon late in October I saw Tom Buchanan.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 9
2  She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
3  Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
4  That force took shape in the middle of spring with the arrival of Tom Buchanan.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
5  I hadn't been there two minutes when somebody brought Tom Buchanan in for a drink.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 6
6  As the waiter brought my change I caught sight of Tom Buchanan across the crowded room.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
7  Tom Buchanan who had been hovering restlessly about the room stopped and rested his hand on my shoulder.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
8  In June she married Tom Buchanan of Chicago with more pomp and circumstance than Louisville ever knew before.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  There is always a halt there of at least a minute and it was because of this that I first met Tom Buchanan's mistress.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
10  So Tom Buchanan and his girl and I went up together to New York--or not quite together, for Mrs. Wilson sat discreetly in another car.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
11  Next day at five o'clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver and started off on a three months' trip to the South Seas.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
12  Some time toward midnight Tom Buchanan and Mrs. Wilson stood face to face discussing in impassioned voices whether Mrs. Wilson had any right to mention Daisy's name.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  Before I could reply that he was my neighbor dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
16  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.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1