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1  It's a bona fide piece of printed matter.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  They were composed of oddly familiar pieces of ivory.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  "Civilization's going to pieces," broke out Tom violently.
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4  I think we all believed for a moment that it had smashed in pieces on the floor.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  He reached in his pocket and a piece of metal, slung on a ribbon, fell into my palm.
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6  And with this doubt his whole statement fell to pieces and I wondered if there wasn't something a little sinister about him after all.
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7  She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up into a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow.
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8  On the white steps an obscene word, scrawled by some boy with a piece of brick, stood out clearly in the moonlight and I erased it, drawing my shoe raspingly along the stone.
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9  It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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