FIST in Classic Quotes

1  He crushed the book in his fists.

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

2  He clenched the book in his fists.

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

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

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

4  The front door opened; Mildred came down the steps, running, one suitcase held with a dreamlike clenching rigidity in her fist, as a beetle-taxi hissed to the curb.

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

5  And then the Government, seeing how advantageous it was to have people reading only about passionate lips and the fist in the stomach, circled the situation with your fire-eaters.

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

6  Montag saw the flirt of a great metal fist over the far city and he knew the scream of the jets that would follow, would say, after the deed, disintegrate, leave no stone on another, perish.

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

7  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