HEARD in Classic Quotes

1  He heard the "relatives" shouting in the parlor.

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

2  He heard her roll impatiently; the bedsprings squealed.

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

3  But there was something else in the silence that he heard.

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

4  He heard Mildred shake the sleeping tablets into her hand.

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

5  Faber heard and Beatty, thinking it was meant for him, heard.

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

6  I heard the captain talking to you and suddenly there was nothing.

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

7  He heard a number of people crying out in the darkness and shouting.

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

8  He thought he heard the old man call goodbye, but he wasn't certain.

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

9  He found the audio-capsule, he heard your voice, he was going to trace it.

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

10  His inner mind, reaching out to turn the corner for him, had heard the faintest whisper.

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

11  She was up, in the bathroom now, and he heard the water running, and the swallowing sound she made.

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

12  Montag heard the voices talking, talking, talking, giving, talking, weaving, reweaving their hypnotic web.

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

13  Behind him he heard the lawn-sprinkling system jump up, filing the dark air with rain that fell gently and then with a steady pour all about, washing on the sidewalks and draining into the alley.

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

14  He almost thought he heard the motion of her hands as she walked, and the infinitely small sound now, the white stir of her face turning when she discovered she was a moment away from a man who stood in the middle of the pavement waiting.

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

15  I've heard there are still hobo camps all across the country, here and there; walking camps they call them, and if you keep walking far enough and keep an eye peeled, they say there's lots of old Harvard degrees on the tracks between here and Los Angeles.

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

16  She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

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

17  Then he stood in the cold night air, waiting, and at a distance he heard the fire sirens start up and run, and the Salamanders coming, coming to burn Mr. Black's house while he was away at work, to make his wife stand shivering in the morning air while the roof let go and dropped in upon the fire, But now, she was still asleep.

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