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Great Neck

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Great Neck

Community on Long Island's North Shore, in North Hempstead town, Nassau County, southeast New York; population (1990) 8,700. Set on a peninsula jutting out into Long Island Sound, it is primarily residential. In the 1920s, Great Neck was home to many film celebrities, and was the model for East Egg in F Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby. Fitzgerald lived here for a time.
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It was with evident reluctance that the great beast turned to leave me in compliance with my command, and ere he had gone I could not resist the inclination to throw my arms about his great neck in a parting hug.
Warlord of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
His great neck hung heavily backwards and a deep sleep took hold upon him.
The Odyssey by Homer View in context
Then Little Toomai laid himself down close to the great neck lest a swinging bough should sweep him to the ground, and he wished that he were back in the lines again.
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