1 He could hear her breathing rapidly and her face was paled out and her eyes were fastened wide.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 2 On the front porch where she had come to weigh them quietly with her eyes, her quietness a condemnation, the woman stood motionless.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 3 The woman knelt among the books, touching the drenched leather and cardboard, reading the gilt titles with her fingers while her eyes accused Montag.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 4 She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall, as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 5 His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 6 There was a tiny dance of melody in the air, her Seashell was tamped in her ear again and she was listening to far people in far places, her eyes wide and staring at the fathoms of blackness above her in the ceiling.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 7 There was only the singing of the thimble-wasps in her tamped-shut ears, and her eyes all glass, and breath going in and out, softly, faintly, in and out her nostrils, and her not caring whether it came or went, went or came.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 8 He saw himself in her eyes, suspended in two shining drops of bright water, himself dark and tiny, in fine detail, the lines about his mouth, everything there, as if her eyes were two miraculous bits of violet amber that might capture and hold him intact.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 9 He felt her there, he saw her without opening his eyes, her hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, the reddened pouting lips, the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander