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1  About five o'clock it was blue enough outside to snap off the light.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
2  "Ten o'clock," she remarked, apparently finding the time on the ceiling.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
3  It was nine o'clock when we finished breakfast and went out on the porch.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
4  By six o'clock Michaelis was worn out and grateful for the sound of a car stopping outside.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
5  It was nine o'clock--almost immediately afterward I looked at my watch and found it was ten.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
6  The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
7  About three o'clock the quality of Wilson's incoherent muttering changed--he grew quieter and began to talk about the yellow car.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
8  Next day at five o'clock she married Tom Buchanan without so much as a shiver and started off on a three months' trip to the South Seas.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
9  At two o'clock Gatsby put on his bathing suit and left word with the butler that if any one phoned word was to be brought to him at the pool.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
10  At eleven o'clock a man in a raincoat dragging a lawn-mower tapped at my front door and said that Mr. Gatsby had sent him over to cut my grass.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
11  The room was large and stifling, and, though it was already four o'clock, opening the windows admitted only a gust of hot shrubbery from the Park.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
12  Then I was lying half asleep in the cold lower level of the Pennsylvania Station, staring at the morning "Tribune" and waiting for the four o'clock train.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  At nine o'clock, one morning late in July Gatsby's gorgeous car lurched up the rocky drive to my door and gave out a burst of melody from its three noted horn.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 4
14  Again at eight o'clock, when the dark lanes of the Forties were five deep with throbbing taxi cabs, bound for the theatre district, I felt a sinking in my heart.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
15  Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
16  By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived--no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
17  I have been drunk just twice in my life and the second time was that afternoon so everything that happened has a dim hazy cast over it although until after eight o'clock the apartment was full of cheerful sun.
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Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
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