POLE in Classic Quotes

1  Montag slid down the brass pole.

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

2  Montag grabbed the brass pole with one hand.

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

3  Montag slid down the pole like a man in a dream.

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

4  The pole, reacting, slid upward, and took him through the ceiling, quietly.

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

5  At the last moment, when disaster seemed positive, he pulled his hands from his pockets and broke his fall by grasping the golden pole.

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

6  Its kennel was empty and the firehouse stood all about in plaster silence and the orange Salamander slept with its kerosene in its belly and the fire throwers crossed upon its flanks and Montag came in through the silence and touched the brass pole and slid up in the dark air, looking back at the deserted kennel, his heart beating, pausing, beating.

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

7  Nights when things got dull, which was every night, the men slid down the brass poles, and set the ticking combinations of the olfactory system of the Hound and let loose rats in the firehouse areaway, and sometimes chickens, and sometimes cats that would have to be drowned anyway, and there would be betting to see which of the cats or chickens or rats the Hound would seize first.

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