ARMS in Classic Quotes

1  "Bles-sed pre-cious," she crooned, holding out her arms.

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

2  When she moved about there was an incessant clicking as innumerable pottery bracelets jingled up and down upon her arms.

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

3  The lamp-light, bright on his boots and dull on the autumn-leaf yellow of her hair, glinted along the paper as she turned a page with a flutter of slender muscles in her arms.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

4  Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4

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
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 1

6  When the "Jazz History of the World" was over girls were putting their heads on men's shoulders in a puppyish, convivial way, girls were swooning backward playfully into men's arms, even into groups knowing that some one would arrest their falls--but no one swooned backward on Gatsby and no French bob touched Gatsby's shoulder and no singing quartets were formed with Gatsby's head for one link.

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