BREATH in Classic Quotes

1  He let his breath go in a great sigh.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

2  It was like a breath exhaled upon the window.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

3  He listened and his wife was singing under her breath.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

4  The old man took a deep breath, held it, and let it out.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

5  Montag held his breath, like a doubled fist, in his chest.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

6  He held his breath so the vacuum could not get into his lungs.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

7  He stopped, afraid he might blow the fire out with a single breath.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

8  And she pushed it up to one hundred and five miles an hour and tore the breath from his mouth.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

9  Her eyes were closed now, gently, and he put out his hand to feel the warmness of breath on his palm.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

10  He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

11  Silently, Granger arose, felt of his arms and legs, swearing, swearing incessantly under his breath, tears dripping from his face.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

12  The breath coming out the nostrils was so faint it stirred only the furthest fringes of life, a small leaf, a black feather, a single fiber of hair.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

13  He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the phantom exhalations and odors of a running man.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

14  If Beatty so much as breathed on them, Montag felt that his hands might wither, turn over on their sides, and never be shocked to life again; they would be buried the rest of his life in his coat sleeves, forgotten.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand

15  There was only the singing of the thimble-wasps in her tamped-shut ears, and her eyes all glass, and breath going in and out, softly, faintly, in and out her nostrils, and her not caring whether it came or went, went or came.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

16  They walked in the warm-cool blowing night on the silvered pavement and there was the faintest breath of fresh apricots and strawberries in the air, and he looked around and realized this was quite impossible, so late in the year.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander

17  He smelled the heavy musk like perfume mingled with blood and the gummed exhalation of the animal's breath, all cardamom and moss and ragweed odor in this huge night where the trees ran at him, pulled away, ran, pulled away, to the pulse of the heart behind his eyes.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright