LAY in Classic Quotes

1  They fell and lay without moving.

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

2  Four books still lay hidden where he had put them.

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

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  They lay there in the dark room not moving, either of them.

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

5  Montag lay watching the dead-alive thing fiddle the air and die.

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

6  He lay massaging his eyes, his brow, and the back of his neck, slowly.

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

7  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

8  I lay down for a catnap and in this dream you and I, Montag, got into a furious debate on books.

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

9  Beatty flopped over and over and over, and at last twisted in on himself like a charred wax doll and lay silent.

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

10  And then he came to the parlor where the great idiot monsters lay asleep with their white thoughts and their snowy dreams.

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

11  But Montag did not move and only stood thinking of the ventilator grill in the hall at home and what lay hidden behind the grill.

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

12  Montag lay back against the wall and then slowly sank to a crouching position and began to nudge the books, bewilderedly, with his thumb, his forefinger.

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

13  He stood looking up at the ventilator grill in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grill, something that seemed to peer down at him now.

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

14  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

15  "Go on," said the woman, and Montag felt himself back away and away out the door, after Beatty, down the steps, across the lawn, where the path of kerosene lay like the track of some evil snail.

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

16  Faber opened the bedroom door and led Montag into a small chamber where stood a table upon which a number of metal tools lay among a welter of microscopic wire hairs, tiny coils, bobbins and crystals.

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

17  Montag moved back to his own house, left the window wide, checked Mildred, tucked the covers about her carefully, and then lay down with the moonlight on his cheekbones and on the frowning ridges in his brow, with the moonlight distilled in each eye to form a silver cataract there.

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