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1  West Egg especially still figures in my more fantastic dreams.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
2  like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
3  Then I heard footsteps on a stairs and in a moment the thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light from the office door.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
4  She had changed her dress to a brown figured muslin which stretched tight over her rather wide hips as Tom helped her to the platform in New York.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  A sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors, endowing with complete isolation the figure of the host who stood on the porch, his hand up in a formal gesture of farewell.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven--a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight and turning my head to watch it I saw that I was not alone--fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene--his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch bleeding fluently and trying to spread a copy of "Town Tattle" over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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