1 When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
2 She might have the decency not to telephone him at dinner-time.
3 The telephone rang inside, startlingly, and as Daisy shook her head decisively at Tom the subject of the stables, in fact all subjects, vanished into air.
4 To a certain temperament the situation might have seemed intriguing--my own instinct was to telephone immediately for the police.
5 I'll telephone my sister Catherine.
6 Sitting on Tom's lap Mrs. Wilson called up several people on the telephone; then there were no cigarettes and I went out to buy some at the drug store on the corner.
7 "He has to telephone," said Mr. Wolfshiem, following him with his eyes.
8 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.
9 Simultaneously I heard his voice, gruff, muffled, husky, at the hall telephone.
10 The telephone book slipped from its nail and splashed to the floor, whereupon Jordan whispered "Excuse me"--but this time no one laughed.
11 No telephone message arrived but the butler went without his sleep and waited for it until four o'clock--until long after there was any one to give it to if it came.
12 You threw me over on the telephone.
13 The auto, the telephone, rural free delivery; they're bringing the farmers in closer touch with the town.
14 The street was cluttered with electric-light poles, telephone poles, gasoline pumps for motor cars, boxes of goods.
15 On a slow afternoon when she fidgeted over sewing and wished that the telephone would ring, Bea announced Miss Vida Sherwin.