FINGER in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 She snapped them out with her fingers.
2 He took out his wallet with trembling fingers.
3 Jordan's fingers, powdered white over their tan, rested for a moment in mine.
4 Tom tapped his thick fingers together like a clergyman and leaned back in his chair.
5 Before I could answer her eyes fastened with an awed expression on her little finger.
6 I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.
7 She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight.
8 A pair of stage "twins"--who turned out to be the girls in yellow--did a baby act in costume and champagne was served in glasses bigger than finger bowls.
9 Half a dozen fingers pointed at the amputated wheel--he stared at it for a moment and then looked upward as though he suspected that it had dropped from the sky.
10 Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place.
11 They had never been closer in their month of love nor communicated more profoundly one with another than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.
12 The straw seats of the car hovered on the edge of combustion; the woman next to me perspired delicately for a while into her white shirtwaist, and then, as her newspaper dampened under her fingers, lapsed despairingly into deep heat with a desolate cry.