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1  At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  "He's a bootlegger," said the young ladies, moving somewhere between his cocktails and his flowers.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  He broke off and began to walk up and down a desolate path of fruit rinds and discarded favors and crushed flowers.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  I came into her room half an hour before the bridal dinner, and found her lying on her bed as lovely as the June night in her flowered dress--and as drunk as a monkey.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  I tried to think about Gatsby then for a moment but he was already too far away and I could only remember, without resentment, that Daisy hadn't sent a message or a flower.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  This reminded me that I had forgotten to tell my Finn to come back so I drove into West Egg Village to search for her among soggy white-washed alleys and to buy some cups and lemons and flowers.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  And as the moon rose higher the inessential houses began to melt away until gradually I became aware of the old island here that flowered once for Dutch sailors' eyes--a fresh, green breast of the new world.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  We went upstairs, through period bedrooms swathed in rose and lavender silk and vivid with new flowers, through dressing rooms and poolrooms, and bathrooms with sunken baths--intruding into one chamber where a dishevelled man in pajamas was doing liver exercises on the floor.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  I have forgotten their names--Jaqueline, I think, or else Consuela or Gloria or Judy or June, and their last names were either the melodious names of flowers and months or the sterner ones of the great American capitalists whose cousins, if pressed, they would confess themselves to be.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  There was a ripe mystery about it, a hint of bedrooms upstairs more beautiful and cool than other bedrooms, of gay and radiant activities taking place through its corridors and of romances that were not musty and laid away already in lavender but fresh and breathing and redolent of this year's shining motor cars and of dances whose flowers were scarcely withered.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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