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1  Her face bent into the single wrinkle of the small white neck.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  I couldn't muster up a single commonplace out of the thousand in my head.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  Then Tom shut the door on them and came down the single step, his eyes avoiding the table.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  Everybody I knew was in the bond business so I supposed it could support one more single man.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  This isn't just an epigram--life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
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6  If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  Involuntarily I glanced seaward--and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away, that might have been the end of a dock.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  There was dancing now on the canvas in the garden, old men pushing young girls backward in eternal graceless circles, superior couples holding each other tortuously, fashionably and keeping in the corners--and a great number of single girls dancing individualistically or relieving the orchestra for a moment of the burden of the banjo or the traps.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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