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1  The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
2  Amid the welcome confusion of cups and cakes a certain physical decency established itself.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
3  He had discovered that Myrtle had some sort of life apart from him in another world and the shock had made him physically sick.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
4  Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1
5  At least a dozen men, some of them little better off than he was, explained to him that wheel and car were no longer joined by any physical bond.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3
6  They were never quite the same ones in physical person but they were so identical one with another that it inevitably seemed they had been there before.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  They are not perfect ovals--like the egg in the Columbus story they are both crushed flat at the contact end--but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to the gulls that fly overhead.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  The transactions in Montana copper that made him many times a millionaire found him physically robust but on the verge of soft-mindedness, and, suspecting this an infinite number of women tried to separate him from his money.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  The prolonged and tumultuous argument that ended by herding us into that room eludes me, though I have a sharp physical memory that, in the course of it, my underwear kept climbing like a damp snake around my legs and intermittent beads of sweat raced cool across my back.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  Her husband, among various physical accomplishments, had been one of the most powerful ends that ever played football at New Haven--a national figure in a way, one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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