THE in Classic Quotes

1  Straight from the horse's mouth.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

2  Straight from the horse's mouth into the note-book.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

3  The enormous room on the ground-floor faced towards the north.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

4  It took eight minutes for the tubes to go through, he told them.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

5  Tall and rather thin but upright, the Director advanced into the room.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

6  Not philosophers, but fret-sawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

7  The overalls of the workers were white, their hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

8  Each of them carried a note-book, in which, whenever the great man spoke, he desperately scribbled.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

9  for Central London always made a point of personally conducting his new students round the various departments.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

10  'Bokanovsky's Process,' repeated the Director, and the students underlined the words in their little note-books.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

11  A troop of newly arrived students, very young, pink and callow, followed nervously, rather abjectly, at the Director's heels.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

12  'Kept,' he explained, 'at blood heat; whereas the male gametes,' and here he opened another door, 'they have to be kept at thirty-five instead of thirty-seven.'

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

13  Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work-tables.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

14  A few died; of the rest, the least susceptible divided into two; most put out four buds; some eight; all were returned to the incubators, where the buds began to develop; then, after two days, were suddenly chilled, chilled and checked.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

15  Bent over their instruments, three hundred Fertilizers were plunged, as the Director of Hatcheries and Conditioning entered the room, in the scarcely breathing silence, the absent-minded, soliloquizing hum or whistle, of absorbed concentration.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

16  Two, four, eight, the buds in their turn budded; and having budded were dosed almost to death with alcohol; consequently burgeoned again and having budded--bud out of bud out of bud were thereafter--further arrest being generally fatal--left to develop in peace.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

17  Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining porcelain of a laboratory.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I