BLACK in Classic Quotes

1  But ever do our eyes return to that black patch upon the sky.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART TWO

2  The leaves rustle over our head, black against the last gold of the sky.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART SEVEN

3  Of a sudden the earth fell in before us, and we saw an old iron grill over a black hole.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
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4  The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
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5  The walls are cracked and water runs upon them in thin threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
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6  Women work in the fields, and their white tunics in the wind are like the wings of sea-gulls beating over the black soil.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART TWO

7  And beyond the City there lies the plain, and beyond the plain, black upon the black sky, there lies the Uncharted Forest.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART TWO

8  We could not see our body nor feel it, and in that moment nothing existed save our two hands over a wire glowing in a black abyss.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART FIVE

9  The word "We" is as lime poured over men, which sets and hardens to stone, and crushes all beneath it, and that which is white and that which is black are lost equally in the grey of it.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART ELEVEN

10  The fields are black and ploughed, and they lie like a great fan before us, with their furrows gathered in some hand beyond the sky, spreading forth from that hand, opening wide apart as they come toward us, like black pleats that sparkle with thin, green spangles.

Anthem By Ayn Rand
ContextHighlight   In PART TWO