BREATH in Classic Quotes

1  Myrtle pulled her chair close to mine, and suddenly her warm breath poured over me the story of her first meeting with Tom.

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

2  So I take advantage of this short halt, while Gatsby, so to speak, caught his breath, to clear this set of misconceptions away.

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

3  He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.

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

4  The track curved and now it was going away from the sun which, as it sank lower, seemed to spread itself in benediction over the vanishing city where she had drawn her breath.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 8

5  His family were enormously wealthy--even in college his freedom with money was a matter for reproach--but now he'd left Chicago and come east in a fashion that rather took your breath away: for instance he'd brought down a string of polo ponies from Lake Forest.

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

6  Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 9