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 Current Search - nodding in The Great Gatsby
1  One of the men nodded in confirmation.
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2  "There's sport for you," said Tom, nodding.
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3  He touched his head impressively and I nodded.
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4  The undergraduate nodded in a cynical, melancholy way.
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5  Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement.
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6  "I'm going to fix everything just the way it was before," he said, nodding determinedly.
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7  But Wilson stood there a long time, his face close to the window pane, nodding into the twilight.
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8  For a moment I thought he was going to suggest a "gonnegtion" but he only nodded and shook my hand.
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9  She nodded and moved away from him just as George Wilson emerged with two chairs from his office door.
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10  I doubted that though there were several she could have married at a nod of her head but I pretended to be surprised.
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11  I am, and you are and you are and---- After an infinitesimal hesitation he included Daisy with a slight nod and she winked at me again.
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12  "Chester, I think you could do something with her," she broke out, but Mr. McKee only nodded in a bored way and turned his attention to Tom.
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13  First he nodded politely, and then his face broke into that radiant and understanding smile, as if we'd been in ecstatic cahoots on that fact all the time.
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14  Tom and I shook hands, the rest of us exchanged a cool nod and they trotted quickly down the drive, disappearing under the August foliage just as Gatsby with hat and light overcoat in hand came out the front door.
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15  At any rate Miss Baker's lips fluttered, she nodded at me almost imperceptibly and then quickly tipped her head back again--the object she was balancing had obviously tottered a little and given her something of a fright.
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