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1  Outside the wind was loud and there was a faint flow of thunder along the Sound.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  There was a slow pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool lovely day.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  Only wind in the trees which blew the wires and made the lights go off and on again as if the house had winked into the darkness.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  A small gust of wind that scarcely corrugated the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  Through the hall of the Buchanans' house blew a faint wind, carrying the sound of the telephone bell out to Gatsby and me as we waited at the door.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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7  Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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8  The wind had blown off, leaving a loud bright night with wings beating in the trees and a persistent organ sound as the full bellows of the earth blew the frogs full of life.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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9  Then there was a boom as Tom Buchanan shut the rear windows and the caught wind died out about the room and the curtains and the rugs and the two young women ballooned slowly to the floor.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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10  Slenderly, languidly, their hands set lightly on their hips the two young women preceded us out onto a rosy-colored porch open toward the sunset where four candles flickered on the table in the diminished wind.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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11  I had on a new plaid skirt also that blew a little in the wind and whenever this happened the red, white and blue banners in front of all the houses stretched out stiff and said tut-tut-tut-tut in a disapproving way.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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12  A breeze blew through the room, blew curtains in at one end and out the other like pale flags, twisting them up toward the frosted wedding cake of the ceiling--and then rippled over the wine-colored rug, making a shadow on it as wind does on the sea.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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13  It was James Gatz who had been loafing along the beach that afternoon in a torn green jersey and a pair of canvas pants, but it was already Jay Gatsby who borrowed a row-boat, pulled out to the Tuolomee and informed Cody that a wind might catch him and break him up in half an hour.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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