HOUND in Classic Quotes

1  The Hound took a step from its kennel.

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

2  He turned and the Mechanical Hound was there.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

3  I don't want that Hound picking up two odors at once.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

4  The Mechanical Hound leapt up in its kennel, its eyes all green flame.

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

5  Yes, the Hound's somewhere about the neighborhood, so don't try anything.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

6  If someone here in the firehouse knew about the ventilator then mightn't they "tell" the Hound.

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

7  Fireman in Seattle, purposely set a Mechanical Hound to his own chemical complex and let it loose.

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

8  It would be easy for someone to set up a partial combination on the Hound's 'memory,' a touch of amino acids, perhaps.

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

9  The Hound half rose in its kennel and looked at him with green-blue neon light flickering in its suddenly activated eye bulbs.

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

10  Below, the Hound had sunk back down upon its eight incredible insect legs and was humming to itself again, its multifaceted eyes at peace.

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

11  He went out to look at the city and the clouds had cleared away completely, and he lit a cigarette and came back to bend down and look at the Hound.

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

12  It stood near the smoking ruins of Montag's house and the men brought his discarded flame thrower to it and put it down under the muzzle of the Hound.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

13  The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the firehouse.

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

14  The street empty, the house burnt like an ancient bit of stage scenery, the other homes dark, the Hound here, Beatty there, the three other firemen another place, and the Salamander.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

15  Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.

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

16  He felt it scrabble and seize his leg and stab the needle in for a moment before the fire snapped the Hound up in the air, burst its metal bones at the joints, and blew out its interior in a single flushing of red color like a skyrocket fastened to the street.

Fahrenheit 451 By Ray Bradbury
Context   In PART 3: Burning Bright

17  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