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1  The room, shadowed well with awnings, was dark and cool.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  The shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  With little ripples that were hardly the shadows of waves, the laden mattress moved irregularly down the pool.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  In the early morning the sun threw my shadow westward as I hurried down the white chasms of lower New York to the Probity Trust.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Gatsby got himself into a shadow and while Daisy and I talked looked conscientiously from one to the other of us with tense unhappy eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing-room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, who rouged and powdered in an invisible glass.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  Sometimes a shadow moved against a dressing-room blind above, gave way to another shadow, an indefinite procession of shadows, who rouged and powdered in an invisible glass.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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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10  A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling--and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  That's my middle west--not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns but the thrilling, returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12  The silhouette of a moving cat wavered across the moonlight and turning my head to watch it I saw that I was not alone--fifty feet away a figure had emerged from the shadow of my neighbor's mansion and was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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