DRIFTING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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1 From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air.
2 He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way.
3 They had spent a year in France, for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
4 Her glance left me and sought the lighted top of the steps where "Three o'Clock in the Morning," a neat, sad little waltz of that year, was drifting out the open door.
5 This was a permanent move, said Daisy over the telephone, but I didn't believe it--I had no sight into Daisy's heart but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking a little wistfully for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game.
6 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.
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