COAT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 He flipped his sleeves up under his coat.
2 She walked close to Gatsby, touching his coat with her hand.
3 Watching Tom I saw the wad of muscle back of his shoulder tighten under his coat.
4 It started because she passed so close to some workmen that our fender flicked a button on one man's coat.
5 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.
6 I helped him to a bedroom upstairs; while he took off his coat and vest I told him that all arrangements had been deferred until he came.
7 Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.
8 He put his hands in his coat pockets and turned back eagerly to his scrutiny of the house, as though my presence marred the sacredness of the vigil.
9 With his hands still in his coat pockets he stalked by me into the hall, turned sharply as if he were on a wire and disappeared into the living room.
10 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.
11 His eyes leaked continuously with excitement and when I took the bag and umbrella from his hands he began to pull so incessantly at his sparse grey beard that I had difficulty in getting off his coat.
12 The airedale--undoubtedly there was an airedale concerned in it somewhere though its feet were startlingly white--changed hands and settled down into Mrs. Wilson's lap, where she fondled the weather-proof coat with rapture.
13 They had never been closer in their month of love nor communicated more profoundly one with another than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.
14 Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body--he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.