BLUE in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 It was gas blue with lavender beads.
2 We all looked--the knuckle was black and blue.
3 Eckleburg are blue and gigantic--their retinas are one yard high.
4 When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.
5 About five o'clock it was blue enough outside to snap off the light.
6 Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky.
7 The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.
8 In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
9 A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap.
10 He was glad a little later when he noticed a change in the room, a blue quickening by the window, and realized that dawn wasn't far off.
11 So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.
12 A damp streak of hair lay like a dash of blue paint across her cheek and her hand was wet with glistening drops as I took it to help her from the car.
13 The late afternoon sky bloomed in the window for a moment like the blue honey of the Mediterranean--then the shrill voice of Mrs. McKee called me back into the room.
14 While we admired he brought more and the soft rich heap mounted higher--shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange with monograms of Indian blue.
15 I had on a new plaid skirt also that blew a little in the wind and whenever this happened the red, white and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiff and said tut-tut-tut-tut in a disapproving way.
16 Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
17 A chauffeur in a uniform of robin's egg blue crossed my lawn early that Saturday morning with a surprisingly formal note from his employer--the honor would be entirely Gatsby's, it said, if I would attend his "little party" that night.
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