I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sport…

F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (1998). The Great Gatsby, p.42, OUP Oxford
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I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings. ✨ F. Scott Fitzgerald (1998). The Great Gatsby, p.42, OUP Oxford

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