GARDENERS in Classic Quotes

1  My voice seemed unnaturally loud across the garden.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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2  At least once a fortnight a corps of caterers came down with several hundred feet of canvas and enough colored lights to make a Christmas tree of Gatsby's enormous garden.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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3  Turning me around by one arm he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep pungent roses and a snub-nosed motor boat that bumped the tide off shore.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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4  I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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5  The bar is in full swing and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside until the air is alive with chatter and laughter and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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6  As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently any knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.

The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
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