He and Ag could hear them below on the balcony.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
In consequence, I’m inclined to reserve all judgements, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The pink wall of the house opposite had fallen out from the roof, and an iron bedstead hung twisted toward the street.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The crowd came over the barrera and around the torero and two men grabbed him and held him and some one cut off his pigtail and was waving it and a kid grabbed it and ran away with it.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Only to get a job and be married.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
She hoped he would have a great career, and believed in him absolutely.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Drevitts and Boyle drove up from the Fifteenth Street police station in a Ford.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
He went inside when he saw me and came downstairs disgusted.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Water buffalo and cattle were hauling carts through the mud.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
So I went down and caught up with them and grabbed him while he was crouched down waiting for the music to break loose and said, Come on Luis.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Ag would not come home until he had a good job and could come to New York to meet her.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
There was a woman having a kid with a young girl holding a blanket over her and crying.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
If it happened right down close in front of you, you could see Villalta snarl at the bull and curse him, and when the bull charged he swung back firmly like an oak when the wind hits it, his legs tight together, the muleta trailing and the sword following the curve behind.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
His face was sweaty and dirty.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Then everything commenced to run faster and faster as when they speed up a cinematograph film.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
They were swearing at him and flopping the cape in his face.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Finally the bull was too tired from so much bad sticking and folded his knees and lay down and one of the cuadrilla leaned out over his neck and killed him with the puntillo.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Maera wanted to say something and found he could not talk.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“Why, my dear, you must know, Mrs. Long says that Netherfield is taken by a young man of large fortune from the north of England; that he came down on Monday in a chaise and four to see the place, and was so much delighted with it, that he agreed with Mr. Morris immediately; that he is to take possession before Michaelmas, and some of his servants are to be in the house by the end of next week.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
She was cool and fresh in the hot night.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
She loved him as always, but she realized now it was only a boy and girl love.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
At two o’clock in the morning two Hungarians got into a cigar store at Fifteenth Street and Grand Avenue.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
The kid came out and had to kill five bulls because you can’t have more than three matadors, and the last bull he was so tired he couldn’t get the sword in.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Since we have been so unfortunate as to miss him and have no notion of his errand, this accidental souvenir becomes of importance.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
One hot evening in Milan they carried him up onto the roof and he could look out over the top of the town.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
They were about the hospital, and how much she loved him and how it was impossible to get along without him and how terrible it was missing him at night.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Holmes was sitting with his back to me, and I had given him no sign of my occupation.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
“You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it.”
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
He didn’t say any more, but we’ve always been unusually communicative in a reserved way, and I understood that he meant a great deal more than that.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I believe in you and I’ll tell everyone in the world that you are the only thing that matters.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
We went to work on the trench and in the morning the sun came up and the day was hot and muggy and cheerful and quiet.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Women and kids were in the carts crouched with mattresses, mirrors, sewing machines, bundles.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Then it got larger and larger and larger and then smaller and smaller.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
“Really, Watson, you excel yourself,” said Holmes, pushing back his chair and lighting a cigarette.
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of Baskervilles
He had so much equipment on and looked awfully surprised and fell down into the garden.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
I went back to the hotel and Maera was on the balcony looking out to see if I’d be bringing him back.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Most of the confidences were unsought—frequently I have feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I realized by some unmistakable sign that an intimate revelation was quivering on the horizon; for the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
You and me we’ve made a separate peace.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I’ve been turning over in my mind ever since.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
The corridor was high and narrow with tiers of cells on either side.
Ernest Hemingway, In Our Time
Dictionary
Merriam-Webster
— used as a function word to indicate connection or addition especially of items within the same class or type —used to join sentence elements of the same grammatical rank or function
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Macmillan
— used between words, phrases etc in order to connect them together
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Usage
1569 uses of ‘and’ in The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
1919 uses of ‘and’ in The Hound of the Baskervilles, by Arthur Conan Doyle