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1  No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  They were gone, without a word, snapped out, made accidental, isolated, like ghosts even from our pity.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.
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4  A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.
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5  The crowd--it was now a crowd--stepped back involuntarily and when the door had opened wide there was a ghostly pause.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  As Gatsby closed the door of "the Merton College Library" I could have sworn I heard the owl-eyed man break into ghostly laughter.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  Tom and Daisy stared, with that peculiarly unreal feeling that accompanies the recognition of a hitherto ghostly celebrity of the movies.
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9  We pushed aside curtains that were like pavilions and felt over innumerable feet of dark wall for electric light switches--once I tumbled with a sort of splash upon the keys of a ghostly piano.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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