GLASS in Classic Quotes

Simple words can express big ideas - learn how great writers to make beautiful sentences with common words.
Quotes from Anthem by Ayn Rand
Free Online Vocabulary Test
K12, SAT, GRE, IELTS, TOEFL
 Search Panel
Word:
You may input your word or phrase.
Author:
Book:
 
Stems:
If search object is a contraction or phrase, it'll be ignored.
Sort by:
Each search starts from the first page. Its result is limited to the first 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.
Common Search Words
 Current Search - Glass in Anthem
1  We placed our glass box upon the table before them.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART SEVEN
2  Then we took our glass box, and we went on into the forest.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART EIGHT
3  And our glass box stood before us on the cold oven, as we had left it.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART SIX
4  And we came to a stream which lay as a streak of glass among the trees.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART EIGHT
5  Only the glass box in our arms is like a living heart that gives us strength.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART SEVEN
6  We have stolen glass vials and powders and acids from the Home of the Scholars.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART ONE
7  We swung our fist through the windowpane, and we leapt out in a ringing rain of glass.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART SEVEN
8  And we looked straight into the eyes of the Council, but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART ONE
9  On the ground there were long thin tracks of iron, but it was not iron; it felt smooth and cold as glass.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART ONE
10  We shall go to this Council and we shall lay before them, as our gift, this glass box with the power of the sky.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART FIVE
11  We found wires that led to strange little globes of glass on the walls; they contained threads of metal thinner than a spider's web.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART THREE
12  We are old now, yet we were young this morning, when we carried our glass box through the streets of the City to the Home of the Scholars.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART SEVEN
13  We forgot, that night, to watch the sand in the glass which tells us when three hours have passed and it is time to return to the City Theatre.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART SIX
14  And when we cleaned the yard of the Home of the Scholars, we gathered the glass vials, the pieces of metal, the dried bones which they had discarded.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART ONE
15  And there, before us, on a broad summit, with the mountains rising behind it, stood a house such as we had never seen, and the white fire came from the sun on the glass of its windows.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART TEN
16  Tonight, after more days and trials than we can count, we finished building a strange thing, from the remains of the Unmentionable Times, a box of glass, devised to give forth the power of the sky of greater strength than we had ever achieved before.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART FIVE
17  All the great modern inventions come from the Home of the Scholars, such as the newest one, which was found only a hundred years ago, of how to make candles from wax and string; also, how to make glass, which is put in our windows to protect us from the rain.
Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART ONE
Your search result may include more than 17 sentences. If you upgrade to a VIP account, you will see up to 500 sentences for one search.