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1  Montag's hands picked up the Bible.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand
2  Montag picked a single small volume from the floor.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
3  I don't want that Hound picking up two odors at once.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright
4  He picked up a small green metal object no larger than a.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand
5  He picked them up and wadded the paper under Faber's gaze.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand
6  And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand
7  He listened to the sound of the car picking up speed two blocks away on his right.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright
8  Somehow he had picked up the spilled books; he didn't remember bending or touching them.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright
9  Good God, it isn't as simple as just picking up a book you laid down half a century ago.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand
10  Mildred arose and began to move around the room, picking things up and putting them down.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander
11  Then the lights switched back to the land, the helicopters swerved over the city again, as if they had picked up another trail.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright
12  He tore the book open and flicked the pages and felt of them as if he were blind, he picked at the shape of the individual letters, not blinking.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand
13  His fingers were like ferrets that had done some evil and now never rested, always stirred and picked and hid in pockets, moving from under Beatty's alcohol-flame stare.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand
14  Far down the boulevard, four blocks way, the beetle had slowed, spun about on two wheels, and was now racing back, slanting over on the wrong side of the street, picking up speed.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright