BEACH in Classic Quotes

1  I had seen him wandering hungrily about the beach that morning.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 5

2  It was the first time he had called on me though I had gone to two of his parties, mounted in his hydroplane, and, at his urgent invitation, made frequent use of his beach.

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

3  At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his two motor-boats slit the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens--finally when it reached the house drifting up the side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  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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6  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