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1  He closed his eyes over the hotness.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
2  He held it close, as if he were blind.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
3  He took another, eyes closed, his mouth tight, and at last exhaled.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand
4  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
5  Montag's hand closed like a mouth, crushed the book with wild devotion, with an insanity of mindlessness to his chest.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
6  It took the better part of fifteen minutes before he drew very close indeed to it, and then he stood looking at it from cover.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright
7  They and their charcoal hair and soot-colored brows and bluish-ash-smeared cheeks where they had shaven close; but their heritage showed.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
8  The tick of the playing cards on the greasy table top, all the sounds came to Montag, behind his closed eyes, behind the barrier he had momentarily erected.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
9  When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, some day it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright
10  On his way across town, with the helicopters fluttering like torn bits of paper in the sky, he phoned the alarm at a lonely phone booth outside a store that was closed for the night.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright