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1  The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  The dilatory limousine came rolling up the drive.
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3  Gatsby was waiting where I had left him in the drive.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  Daisy's voice got us to our feet and out on to the blazing gravel drive.
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5  Under the dripping bare lilac trees a large open car was coming up the drive.
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6  Then I walked slowly down the drive away from the house intending to wait by the gate.
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7  It was on that same house party that we had a curious conversation about driving a car.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  Only gradually did I become aware that the automobiles which turned expectantly into his drive stayed for just a minute and then drove sulkily away.
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9  Snell was there three days before he went to the penitentiary, so drunk out on the gravel drive that Mrs. Ulysses Swett's automobile ran over his right hand.
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10  At nine o'clock, one morning late in July Gatsby's gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three noted horn.
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11  After half an hour the sun shone again and the grocer's automobile rounded Gatsby's drive with the raw material for his servants' dinner--I felt sure he wouldn't eat a spoonful.
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12  The lawn and drive had been crowded with the faces of those who guessed at his corruption--and he had stood on those steps, concealing his incorruptible dream, as he waved them goodbye.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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13  Toward dawn I heard a taxi go up Gatsby's drive and immediately I jumped out of bed and began to dress--I felt that I had something to tell him, something to warn him about and morning would be too late.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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14  Tom and I shook hands, the rest of us exchanged a cool nod and they trotted quickly down the drive, disappearing under the August foliage just as Gatsby with hat and light overcoat in hand came out the front door.
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15  Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery, and in this we slid out from the mass of the station into the glowing sunshine.
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16  I spent my Saturday nights in New York because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter faint and incessant from his garden and the cars going up and down his drive.
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17  The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.
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