EMPTY in Classic Quotes

1  Mildred looked at the empty air.

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

2  She jumped away, her hands empty.

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

3  Suddenly there were four empty chairs.

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

4  At nine in the morning, Mildred's bed was empty.

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

5  The street and the lawn and the porch were empty.

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

6  A fierce whisper of hot sand through empty sieve.

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

7  His hands were tired, the sand was boiling, the sieve was empty.

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

8  The three women fidgeted and looked nervously at the empty mud-colored walls.

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

9  He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea.

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

10  The three empty walls of the room were like the pale brows of sleeping giants now, empty of dreams.

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

11  She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about.

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

12  The police went first and adhesive-taped the victim's mouth and bandaged him off into their glittering beetle cars, so when you arrived you found an empty house.

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

13  The small crystal bottle of sleeping tablets which earlier today had been filled with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny flare.

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

14  The lawn was empty, the trees empty, the street empty, and while at first he did not even know he missed her or was even looking for her, the fact was that by the time he reached the subway, there were vague stirrings of dis-ease in him.

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

15  They sat in the hall because the parlor was so empty and gray-looking without its wall lit with orange and yellow confetti and skyrockets and women in gold-mesh dresses and men in black velvet pulling one-hundred-pound rabbits from silver hats.

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

16  The room was blazing hot, he was all fire, he was all coldness; they sat in the middle of an empty desert with three chairs and him standing, swaying, and him waiting for Mrs. Phelps to stop straightening her dress hem and Mrs. Bowles to take her fingers away from her hair.

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

17  For it would be the dying of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman, while the hungry snake made her still more empty.

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