BLACKNESS in Classic Quotes

1  We all looked--the knuckle was black and blue.

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

2  His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the door.

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

3  It was dark here in front: only the bright door sent ten square feet of light volleying out into the soft black morning.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 6

4  A massage and a wave and a collar for the dog and one of those cute little ash-trays where you touch a spring, and a wreath with a black silk bow for mother's grave that'll last all summer.

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

5  I walked out the back way--just as Gatsby had when he had made his nervous circuit of the house half an hour before--and ran for a huge black knotted tree whose massed leaves made a fabric against the rain.

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

6  The tears coursed down her cheeks--not freely, however, for when they came into contact with her heavily beaded eyelashes they assumed an inky color, and pursued the rest of their way in slow black rivulets.

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