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1  In the sunlight his face was green.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  Now it was again a green light on a dock.
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3  He felt the hot, green leather of the seat.
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4  Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us.
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5  Michaelis wasn't even sure of its color--he told the first policeman that it was light green.
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6  On the green Sound, stagnant in the heat, one small sail crawled slowly toward the fresher sea.
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7  Sitting down behind many layers of glass in a sort of green leather conservatory we started to town.
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8  Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
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9  And as I sat there brooding on the old, unknown world, I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock.
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10  Usually her voice came over the wire as something fresh and cool as if a divot from a green golf links had come sailing in at the office window but this morning it seemed harsh and dry.
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11  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.
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12  It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row-boat, pulled out to the Tuolomee and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.
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