MURMUR in Classic Quotes
Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
| Search Panel |
Word: | ||
You may input your word or phrase. | ||
Author: | ||
Book: | ||
Stems: | ||
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored. | ||
Sort by: | ||
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
| Current Search - murmur in The Great Gatsby |
1 "You know I love you," she murmured.
2 "We're all white here," murmured Jordan.
3 Mr. Sloane murmured something close to her ear.
4 "And Daisy ought to have something in her life," murmured Jordan to me.
5 She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker.
6 The murmur trembled on the verge of coherence, sank down, mounted excitedly, and then ceased altogether.
7 A subdued impassioned murmur was audible in the room beyond and Miss Baker leaned forward, unashamed, trying to hear.
8 The circle closed up again with a running murmur of expostulation; it was a minute before I could see anything at all.
9 Then from the living room I heard a sort of choking murmur and part of a laugh followed by Daisy's voice on a clear artificial note.
10 They arrived at twilight and as we strolled out among the sparkling hundreds Daisy's voice was playing murmurous tricks in her throat.
11 While the rain continued it had seemed like the murmur of their voices, rising and swelling a little, now and then, with gusts of emotion.
12 The butler came back and murmured something close to Tom's ear whereupon Tom frowned, pushed back his chair and without a word went inside.
13 Dimly I heard someone murmur "Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on," and then the owl-eyed man said "Amen to that," in a brave voice.
14 If she saw me out of the corner of her eyes she gave no hint of it--indeed, I was almost surprised into murmuring an apology for having disturbed her by coming in.
15 Tom and Miss Baker sat at either end of the long couch and she read aloud to him from the "Saturday Evening Post"--the words, murmurous and uninflected, running together in a soothing tune.
16 With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate.