AGAINST in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 There was the smile again, but this time I held out against it.
2 Aware of the loud beating of my own heart I pulled the door to against the increasing rain.
3 The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.
4 When we came into the station he was next to me and his white shirt-front pressed against my arm--and so I told him I'd have to call a policeman, but he knew I lied.
5 On buffet tables, garnished with glistening hors-d'oeuvre, spiced baked hams crowded against salads of harlequin designs and pastry pigs and turkeys bewitched to a dark gold.
6 Instead of rambling this party had preserved a dignified homogeneity, and assumed to itself the function of representing the staid nobility of the countryside--East Egg condescending to West Egg, and carefully on guard against its spectroscopic gayety.
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