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 Current Search - polite in The Great Gatsby
1  "Your face is familiar," he said, politely.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  He turned me around again, politely and abruptly.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  "Oh, yes," said Tom, gruffly polite but obviously not remembering.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
4  "You're very polite but I belong to another generation," he announced solemnly.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  They were here--and they accepted Tom and me, making only a polite pleasant effort to entertain or to be entertained.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  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.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8