PAIR OF in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 What I called up about was a pair of shoes I left there.
2 They look out of no face but, instead, from a pair of enormous yellow spectacles which pass over a nonexistent nose.
3 A few days later he took him to Duluth and bought him a blue coat, six pair of white duck trousers and a yachting cap.
4 Then he went into the jewelry store to buy a pearl necklace--or perhaps only a pair of cuff buttons--rid of my provincial squeamishness forever.
5 A pair of stage "twins"--who turned out to be the girls in yellow--did a baby act in costume and champagne was served in glasses bigger than finger bowls.
6 Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.
7 It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row-boat, pulled out to the Tuolomee and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.