GREAT 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  A great thunderstorm of sound gushed from the walls.

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

3  The books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry.

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

4  The open door looked at him with its great vacant eye.

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

5  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

6  He took time to prepare and light his brass pipe and puff out a great smoke cloud.

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

7  They sat there looking out the front of the great Salamander as they turned a corner and went silently on.

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

8  The firehouse trembled as a great flight of jet planes whistled a single note across the black morning sky.

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

9  Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning.

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

10  The train radio vomited upon Montag, in retaliation, a great tonload of music made of tin, copper, silver, chromium, and brass.

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

11  The people were pounded into submission; they did not run, there was no place to run; the great air train fell down its shaft in the earth.

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

12  Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb-world where no sound from the great city could penetrate.

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

13  A bomber fight had been moving east all the time they talked, and only now did the two men stop and listen, feeling the great jet sound tremble inside themselves.

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

14  The dim light of one in the morning, the moonlight from the open sky framed through the great window, touched here and there on the brass and the copper and the steel of the faintly trembling beast.

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

15  It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.

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

16  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

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