ALREADY in Classic Quotes

1  A silver curve of the moon hovered already in the western sky.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

2  The room was large and stifling, and, though it was already four o'clock, opening the windows admitted only a gust of hot shrubbery from the Park.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7

3  However, as they had left their cars blocking the road a harsh discordant din from those in the rear had been audible for some time and added to the already violent confusion of the scene.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

4  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
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

5  The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 3

6  This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 2