That was a way she had.

What was that word we⁠—

There was no need of that.

They all came just like that.

This idea is that we’re Nordics.

Liking that made her feel funny.

It was funny going along that road.

The men were just home that was all.

No, that was very, very exceptional.

“That damn big buck Jimmy,” said A. J.

That was when I was a kitchen Corporal.

That is what is happening when she screams.

He felt sick about saying goodbye like that.

“Don’t talk that way, Dick,” the doctor said.

It is the one country that everyone is sure of.

“What are you doing that for?” asked the doctor.

“Pull back that quilt, will you, George?” he said.

That night Charley Wyman stayed to supper at Smith’s.

“I’ll put some peroxide on that, George,” the doctor said.

She liked it very much that he didn’t look like a blacksmith.

He had been like that since about four o’clock in the morning.

I enjoyed the counter-raid so thoroughly that I came back restless.

They did not even remember that he was middleweight boxing champion.

Ag wrote him many letters that he never got until after the armistice.

“I hate that word ‘hulking,’ ” objected Tom crossly, “even in kidding.”

The woman in the kitchen motioned to the doctor that the water was hot.

She hinted in a murmur that the surname of the balancing girl was Baker.

“There. That gets it,” said his father and put something into the basin.

I can’t really believe that anyone would do a thing of that sort intentionally.

It occurred to me now that I had seen her, or a picture of her, somewhere before.

It was such a sharp, aching, hurting feeling that she thought she couldn’t stand it.

It was hard to realize that a man in my own generation was wealthy enough to do that.

Dear, I don’t think, I really don’t think that anyone would really do a thing like that.

And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit.

“I’m stiff,” she complained, “I’ve been lying on that sofa for as long as I can remember.”

He was so good that Spider promptly overmatched him and got his nose permanently flattened.

Or, rather, as I didn’t know Mr. Gatsby, it was a mansion inhabited by a gentleman of that name.

Do not think that I am very much impressed by that as a boxing title, but it meant a lot to Cohn.

Then the hand that felt so big in her lap went away and was on her leg and started to move up it.

—And we’ve produced all the things that go to make civilization⁠—oh, science and art, and all that.

From Smith’s back door you could look out across the woods that ran down to the lake and across the bay.

Liz had good legs and always wore clean gingham aprons and Jim noticed that her hair was always neat behind.

The logs had been lost from the big log booms that were towed down the lake to the mill by the steamer Magic.

Then they went into the woods and followed a trail that led to the logging road that ran back into the hills.

He was very short with a brown face and quite drunk and he said, “After all, it has happened before like that.”

It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America.

They knew that presently dinner would be over and a little later the evening too would be over and casually put away.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.

The windows were ajar and gleaming white against the fresh grass outside that seemed to grow a little way into the house.

And so it happened that on a warm windy evening I drove over to East Egg to see two old friends whom I scarcely knew at all.