DRIVING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 The pebbles of the drive crunched under his feet.
2 The dilatory limousine came rolling up the drive.
3 Suppose Tom found out that Daisy had been driving.
4 Gatsby was waiting where I had left him in the drive.
5 Daisy's voice got us to our feet and out on to the blazing gravel drive.
6 Under the dripping bare lilac trees a large open car was coming up the drive.
7 Then I walked slowly down the drive away from the house intending to wait by the gate.
8 It was on that same house party that we had a curious conversation about driving a car.
9 Some one who had been driving a little behind us confirmed this and the policeman turned away.
10 When Jordan Baker had finished telling all this we had left the Plaza for half an hour and were driving in a Victoria through Central Park.
11 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.
12 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.
13 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.
14 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.
15 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.
16 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.
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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