SOUND in Classic Quotes

1  The parlor was exploding with sound.

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

2  A great thunderstorm of sound gushed from the walls.

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

3  The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.

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

4  Her mouth moved and she was saying something but the sound covered it.

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

5  They leaned forward at the sound of Montag's swallowing his final bite of food.

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

6  Beatty opening a fresh tobacco packet, crumpling the cellophane into a sound of fire.

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

7  Seated there in the midst of July, without a sound, he felt the tears move down his cheeks.

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

8  She was up, in the bathroom now, and he heard the water running, and the swallowing sound she made.

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

9  There was a tacking-tacking sound as the alarm report telephone-typed out the address across the room.

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

10  There was a tremendous ripping sound as if two giant hands had torn ten thousand miles of black linen down the seam.

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

11  Every night the waves came in and bore her off on their great tides of sound, floating her, wide-eyed, toward morning.

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

12  Complete darkness, not a hint of the silver world outside, the windows tightly shut, the chamber a tomb-world where no sound from the great city could penetrate.

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

13  He felt that the stars had been pulverized by the sound of the black jets and that in the morning the earth would be covered with their dust like a strange snow.

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

14  A bomber fight had been moving east all the time they talked, and only now did the two men stop and listen, feeling the great jet sound tremble inside themselves.

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

15  It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.

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

16  And in her ears the little Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her unsleeping mind.

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

17  He almost thought he heard the motion of her hands as she walked, and the infinitely small sound now, the white stir of her face turning when she discovered she was a moment away from a man who stood in the middle of the pavement waiting.

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