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1  She used to be able to understand.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  "I used to know a Bill Biloxi from Memphis," I remarked.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  I used to ride in the army but I've never bought a horse.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  Well, he's no use to us if Detroit is his idea of a small town.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  I think he rather expected me to copy down the list for my own use.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  I got him to join up in the American Legion and he used to stand high there.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  He never understood the legal device that was used against him but what remained of the millions went intact to Ella Kaye.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  I saw right away he was a fine appearing, gentlemanly young man, and when he told me he was an Oggsford I knew I could use him good.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  Sometimes in the course of gay parties women used to rub champagne into his hair; for himself he formed the habit of letting liquor alone.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  Well, he wasn't always a butler; he used to be the silver polisher for some people in New York that had a silver service for two hundred people.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  She used to sit on the sand with his head in her lap by the hour rubbing her fingers over his eyes and looking at him with unfathomable delight.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12  It was the first time he had called on me though I had gone to two of his parties, mounted in his hydroplane, and, at his urgent invitation, made frequent use of his beach.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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13  However, that was my fault, for he was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor and I should have known better than to call him.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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14  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
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15  Or perhaps I had merely grown used to it, grown to accept West Egg as a world complete in itself, with its own standards and its own great figures, second to nothing because it had no consciousness of being so, and now I was looking at it again, through Daisy's eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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