FEW in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stories of USA Today
Materials for Reading & Listening Practice
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:

Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
Buy the book from Amazon
 Current Search - few in The Great Gatsby
1  We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
2  I said lightly that I had heard nothing at all, and a few minutes later I got up to go home.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
3  As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
4  There were generally a few rioters around but they never came into the library so it was a good place to work.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
5  By the next year I had a few beaux myself, and I began to play in tournaments, so I didn't see Daisy very often.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
6  I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
7  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.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
8  I must have stood for a few moments listening to the whip and snap of the curtains and the groan of a picture on the wall.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
9  I sat down for a few minutes with my head in my hands, until I heard the phone taken up inside and the butler's voice calling a taxi.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
10  It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and a grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
11  They were, at least, agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
12  Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
13  People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
14  In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
15  After that she didn't play around with the soldiers any more but only with a few flat-footed, short-sighted young men in town who couldn't get into the army at all.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
16  I liked to walk up Fifth Avenue and pick out romantic women from the crowd and imagine that in a few minutes I was going to enter into their lives, and no one would ever know or disapprove.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
17  I had a dog, at least I had him for a few days until he ran away, and an old Dodge and a Finnish woman who made my bed and cooked breakfast and muttered Finnish wisdom to herself over the electric stove.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.