ENORMOUS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 It was a body capable of enormous leverage--a cruel body.
2 Eckleburg which had just emerged pale and enormous from the dissolving night.
3 They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.
4 His house had never seemed so enormous to me as it did that night when we hunted through the great rooms for cigarettes.
5 Daisy and Jordan lay upon an enormous couch, like silver idols, weighing down their own white dresses against the singing breeze of the fans.
6 The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.
7 There was nothing to look at from under the tree except Gatsby's enormous house, so I stared at it, like Kant at his church steeple, for half an hour.
8 At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.
9 A stout, middle-aged man with enormous owl-eyed spectacles was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books.
10 Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.
11 His family were enormously wealthy--even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach--but now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.
12 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.