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1  For a moment the set of his face could be described in just that fantastic way.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
2  The automatic quality of Gatsby's answer set us all back at least another minute.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
3  He set down the receiver and came toward us, glistening slightly, to take our stiff straw hats.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
4  Picking up Wilson like a doll Tom carried him into the office, set him down in a chair and came back.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  His bedroom was the simplest room of all--except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5
6  So I take advantage of this short halt, while Gatsby, so to speak, caught his breath, to clear this set of misconceptions away.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6
7  I was sure the request would be something utterly fantastic and for a moment I was sorry I'd ever set foot upon his overpopulated lawn.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
8  It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and a grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2
9  He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure of his head, whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back in place.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  I wondered if the fact that he was not drinking helped to set him off from his guests, for it seemed to me that he grew more correct as the fraternal hilarity increased.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12  Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice in the borough of Queens, and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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13  In the main hall a bar with a real brass rail was set up, and stocked with gins and liquors and with cordials so long forgotten that most of his female guests were too young to know one from another.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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14  Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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15  The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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16  For Daisy was young and her artificial world was redolent of orchids and pleasant, cheerful snobbery and orchestras which set the rhythm of the year, summing up the sadness and suggestiveness of life in new tunes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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17  Someone with a positive manner, perhaps a detective, used the expression "mad man" as he bent over Wilson's body that afternoon, and the adventitious authority of his voice set the key for the newspaper reports next morning.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9
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