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1  Probably it was some final guest who had been away at the ends of the earth and didn't know that the party was over.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
2  I believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby's house I was one of the few guests who had actually been invited.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
3  Rather ashamed that on my first appearance I had stayed so late, I joined the last of Gatsby's guests who were clustered around him.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
5  I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  I couldn't guess what Daisy and Tom were thinking but I doubt if even Miss Baker who seemed to have mastered a certain hardy skepticism was able utterly to put this fifth guest's shrill metallic urgency out of mind.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  And inside as we wandered through Marie Antoinette music rooms and Restoration salons I felt that there were guests concealed behind every couch and table, under orders to be breathlessly silent until we had passed through.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  Gatsby asked me to wait until he was free and I lingered in the garden until the inevitable swimming party had run up, chilled and exalted, from the black beach, until the lights were extinguished in the guest rooms overhead.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3