MOVEMENT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 Making a short deft movement Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.
2 Her body asserted itself with a restless movement of her knee, and she stood up.
3 There was a slow pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool lovely day.
4 Then he made a harsh sound in his throat and with a violent thrusting movement of his powerful arms pushed his way through.
5 Evidently it surprised her as much as it did me, for she yawned and with a series of rapid, deft movements stood up into the room.
6 There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.
7 It was Jordan Baker; she often called me up at this hour because the uncertainty of her own movements between hotels and clubs and private houses made her hard to find in any other way.
8 Something in his leisurely movements and the secure position of his feet upon the lawn suggested that it was Mr. Gatsby himself, come out to determine what share was his of our local heavens.
9 I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes--there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon golf courses on clean, crisp mornings.
10 He was balancing himself on the dashboard of his car with that resourcefulness of movement that is so peculiarly American--that comes, I suppose, with the absence of lifting work or rigid sitting in youth and, even more, with the formless grace of our nervous, sporadic games.
11 As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.