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1  Nevertheless there was a vague understanding that had to be tactfully broken off before I was free.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  Whenever there was a pause in the song she filled it with gasping broken sobs and then took up the lyric again in a quavering soprano.
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3  Then there were bloody towels upon the bathroom floor, and women's voices scolding, and high over the confusion a long broken wail of pain.
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4  I saw the skins of tigers flaming in his palace on the Grand Canal; I saw him opening a chest of rubies to ease, with their crimson-lighted depths, the gnawings of his broken heart.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  Among the broken fragments of the last five minutes at table I remember the candles being lit again, pointlessly, and I was conscious of wanting to look squarely at every one and yet to avoid all eyes.
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6  The front was broken by a line of French windows, glowing now with reflected gold, and wide open to the warm windy afternoon, and Tom Buchanan in riding clothes was standing with his legs apart on the front porch.
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