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1  The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand.
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3  He was pale and there were dark signs of sleeplessness beneath his eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  The Buchanans' house floated suddenly toward us through the dark rustling trees.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  It was dark here in front: only the bright door sent ten square feet of light volleying out into the soft black morning.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  We passed a barrier of dark trees, and then the facade of Fifty-ninth Street, a block of delicate pale light, beamed down into the park.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  A white ashen dust veiled his dark suit and his pale hair as it veiled everything in the vicinity--except his wife, who moved close to Tom.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  It was dark now, and as we dipped under a little bridge I put my arm around Jordan's golden shoulder and drew her toward me and asked her to dinner.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  Again at eight o'clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with throbbing taxi cabs, bound for the theatre district, I felt a sinking in my heart.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  I knew the other clerks and young bond-salesmen by their first names and lunched with them in dark crowded restaurants on little pig sausages and mashed potatoes and coffee.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  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.
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12  On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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
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14  We passed Port Roosevelt, where there was a glimpse of red-belted ocean-going ships, and sped along a cobbled slum lined with the dark, undeserted saloons of the faded gilt nineteen-hundreds.
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15  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.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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16  But I didn't call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone--he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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17  The other car, the one going toward New York, came to rest a hundred yards beyond, and its driver hurried back to where Myrtle Wilson, her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick, dark blood with the dust.
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