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1  He took off his glasses and wiped them again outside and in.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  But he wouldn't eat and the glass of milk spilled from his trembling hand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  But immediately she turned sharply from the window and leaning forward tapped on the front glass.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  His hand, trembling with his effort at self control, bore to his lips the last of his glass of ale.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  "You make me feel uncivilized, Daisy," I confessed on my second glass of corky but rather impressive claret.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby's books in the library one night three months before.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  The rain poured down his thick glasses and he took them off and wiped them to see the protecting canvas unrolled from Gatsby's grave.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  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.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing-room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, who rouged and powdered in an invisible glass.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  Finally we came to Gatsby's own apartment, a bedroom and a bath and an Adam study, where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12  It was this night that he told me the strange story of his youth with Dan Cody--told it to me because "Jay Gatsby" had broken up like glass against Tom's hard malice and the long secret extravaganza was played out.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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