DOWN in Classic Quotes

1  He felt his chest chopped down and split apart.

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

2  Montag sank down into a chair and looked at this woman.

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

3  The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.

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

4  All rushing on down around in a spouting roar and rivering stream toward morning.

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

5  He opened his own mouth and let their shriek come down and out between his bared teeth.

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

6  Montag got up quickly, his heart pumping, and ran down the hall and stopped at the kitchen door.

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

7  It was not unlike the feeling he had experienced before turning the corner and almost knocking the girl down.

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

8  There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam.

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

9  Go on, anyway, shove the bore down, slush up the emptiness, if such a thing could be brought out in the throb of the suction snake.

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

10  There had been no night in the last two years that Mildred had not swum that sea, had not gladly gone down in it for the third time.

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

11  One of them slid down into your stomach like a black cobra down an echoing well looking for all the old water and the old time gathered there.

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

12  He stood looking up at the ventilator grill in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grill, something that seemed to peer down at him now.

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

13  He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out.

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

14  He hung up his black beetle-colored helmet and shined it; he hung his flameproof jacket neatly; he showered luxuriously, and then, whistling, hands in pockets, walked across the upper floor of the fire station and fell down the hole.

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

15  He walked out of the fire station and along the midnight street toward the subway where the silent air-propelled train slid soundlessly down its lubricated flue in the earth and let him out with a great puff of warm air onto the cream-tiled escalator rising to the suburb.

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

16  Montag moved back to his own house, left the window wide, checked Mildred, tucked the covers about her carefully, and then lay down with the moonlight on his cheekbones and on the frowning ridges in his brow, with the moonlight distilled in each eye to form a silver cataract there.

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

17  With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.

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