SMELL in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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1 His fingers smelled of licorice.
2 The air was cold and smelled of a coming rain.
3 The smell of the river was cool and like a solid rain.
4 Half an hour from now you'll smell like two other people.
5 There was a smell like carnations from the yard next door.
6 And the smell of blue electricity blowing under the locked door.
7 Beatty, smelling of the wind through which he had rushed, was at Montag's elbow.
8 He fell back under the breaking curve of darkness and sound and smell, his ears roaring.
9 There was a smell like pickles from a bottle and a smell like parsley on the table at home.
10 There must have been a billion leaves on the land; he waded in them, a dry river smelling of hot cloves and warm dust.
11 Millie was not here and the Hound was not here, but the dry smell of hay blowing from some distant field put Montag on the land.
12 He was a thing of brush and liquid eye, of fur and muzzle and hoof, he was a thing of horn and blood that would smell like autumn if you bled it out on the ground.
13 Now, the dry smell of hay, the motion of the waters, made him think of sleeping in fresh hay in a lonely barn away from the loud highways, behind a quiet farmhouse, and under an ancient windmill that whirred like the sound of the passing years overhead.
14 Here was the single familiar thing, the magic charm he might need a little while, to touch, to feel beneath his feet, as he moved on into the bramble bushes and the lakes of smelling and feeling and touching, among the whispers and the blowing down of leaves.
15 He smelled the heavy musk like perfume mingled with blood and the gummed exhalation of the animal's breath, all cardamom and moss and ragweed odor in this huge night where the trees ran at him, pulled away, ran, pulled away, to the pulse of the heart behind his eyes.