THIN in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 But the connection came through as a man's voice, very thin and far away.
2 The rain cooled about half-past three to a damp mist through which occasional thin drops swam like dew.
3 The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of compass, a thin red circle in the water.
4 They were still under the white plum tree and their faces were touching except for a pale thin ray of moonlight between.
5 Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
6 Two o'clock and the whole corner of the peninsula was blazing with light which fell unreal on the shrubbery and made thin elongating glints upon the roadside wires.
7 By seven o'clock the orchestra has arrived--no thin five-piece affair but a whole pitful of oboes and trombones and saxophones and viols and cornets and piccolos and low and high drums.
8 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.