I think he did right, though, shooting those chaps.

They felt as though they were married, but they wanted everyone to know about it, and to make it so they could not lose it.

The only completely stationary object in the room was an enormous couch on which two young women were buoyed up as though upon an anchored balloon.

I lived at West Egg, the⁠—well, the less fashionable of the two, though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.

Before I could reply that he was my neighbour dinner was announced; wedging his tense arm imperatively under mine, Tom Buchanan compelled me from the room as though he were moving a checker to another square.

The lawn started at the beach and ran towards the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sundials 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.