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1  The touch of a cluster of leaves revolved it slowly, tracing, like the leg of compass, a thin red circle in the water.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8
2  There was a faint, barely perceptible movement of the water as the fresh flow from one end urged its way toward the drain at the other.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  But I didn't call to him for he gave a sudden intimation that he was content to be alone--he stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and far as I was from him I could have sworn he was trembling.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  My own house was an eye-sore, but it was a small eye-sore, and it had been overlooked, so I had a view of the water, a partial view of my neighbor's lawn, and the consoling proximity of millionaires--all for eighty dollars a month.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay, jut out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere, the great wet barnyard of Long Island Sound.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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