BEGAN in Classic Quotes

1  She said his name and began to cry.

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

2  Faber got up and began to pace the room.

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

3  He began throwing dust and dirt in the fire.

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

4  And the war began and ended in that instant.

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

5  He began to put on his clothes, moving restlessly about the bedroom.

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

6  He began to shuffle idiotically and talk to himself and then he broke and just ran.

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

7  He began to unwad the crumpled paper and flatten it out as the old man watched tiredly.

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

8  Mildred arose and began to move around the room, picking things up and putting them down.

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

9  His hands, by themselves, like two men working together, began to rip the pages from the book.

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

10  The fireproof plastic sheath on everything was cut wide and the house began to shudder with flame.

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

11  Beatty stood there looking at him steadily with his eyes, while his mouth opened and began to laugh, very softly.

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

12  And then when the startled dust had settled down about Montag's mind, Faber began, softly, "All right, he's had his say."

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

13  After a moment the bacon began to flutter and dance in the pan and the sputter of it filled the morning air with its aroma.

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

14  Montag lay back against the wall and then slowly sank to a crouching position and began to nudge the books, bewilderedly, with his thumb, his forefinger.

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

15  What incredible power of identification the girl had; she was like the eager watcher of a marionette show, anticipating each flicker of an eyelid, each gesture of his hand, each flick of a finger, the moment before it began.

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

16  Then he began to read in a low, stumbling voice that grew firmer as he progressed from line to line, and his voice went out across the desert, into the whiteness, and around the three sitting women there in the great hot emptiness.

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

17  And then the voices began and they were talking, and he could hear nothing of what the voices said, but the sound rose and fell quietly and the voices were turning the world over and looking at it; the voices knew the land and the trees and the city which lay down the track by the river.

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