GLEAMING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 When he saw us a damp gleam of hope sprang into his light blue eyes.
2 Before I could answer, Daisy came out of the house and two rows of brass buttons on her dress gleamed in the sunlight.
3 The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.
4 He lit Daisy's cigarette from a trembling match, and sat down with her on a couch far across the room where there was no light save what the gleaming floor bounced in from the hall.
5 Her face, above a spotted dress of dark blue crepe-de-chine, contained no facet or gleam of beauty but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.
6 I spent my Saturday nights in New York because those gleaming, dazzling parties of his were with me so vividly that I could still hear the music and the laughter faint and incessant from his garden and the cars going up and down his drive.
7 She had caught a cold and it made her voice huskier and more charming than ever and Gatsby was overwhelmingly aware of the youth and mystery that wealth imprisons and preserves, of the freshness of many clothes and of Daisy, gleaming like silver, safe and proud above the hot struggles of the poor.