STRAINING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 This has been a strain to you and you don't know what you're saying.
2 "It's a nice yellow one," said Wilson, as he strained at the handle.
3 Suddenly with a strained sound, Daisy bent her head into the shirts and began to cry stormily.
4 They shook hands briefly and a strained, unfamiliar look of embarrassment came over Gatsby's face.
5 Gatsby, his hands still in his pockets, was reclining against the mantelpiece in a strained counterfeit of perfect ease, even of boredom.
6 Then the valley of ashes opened out on both sides of us, and I had a glimpse of Mrs. Wilson straining at the garage pump with panting vitality as we went by.
7 Not even the effeminate swank of his riding clothes could hide the enormous power of that body--he seemed to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing and you could see a great pack of muscle shifting when his shoulder moved under his thin coat.