BODY in Classic Quotes

1  He wanted to see the man alive and not burned back there like a body shelled in another body.

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

2  This machine pumped all of the blood from the body and replaced it with fresh blood and serum.

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

3  They fell like slaughtered birds and the woman stood below, like a small girl, among the bodies.

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

4  She ran past with her body stiff, her face floured with powder, her mouth gone, without lipstick.

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

5  He was crushed by darkness and the look of the country and the million odors on a wind that iced his body.

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

6  The heat of the racing headlights burnt his cheeks, it seemed, and jittered his eyelids and flushed the sour sweat out all over his body.

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

7  He waded in and stripped in darkness to the skin, splashed his body, arms, legs, and head with raw liquor; drank it and snuffed some up his nose.

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

8  Montag did not hear, he was far away, he was running with his mind, he was gone, leaving this dead soot-covered body to sway in front of another raving fool.

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

9  He felt his body divide itself into a hotness and a coldness, a softness and a hardness, a trembling and a not trembling, the two halves grinding one upon the other.

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

10  Montag took the four remaining books and hopped, jolted, hopped his way down the alley and suddenly fell as if his head had been cut off and only his body lay there.

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

11  His wife stretched on the bed, uncovered and cold, like a body displayed on the lid of a tomb, her eyes fixed to the ceiling by invisible threads of steel, immovable.

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

12  He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the phantom exhalations and odors of a running man.

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

13  The driver of that car, seeing Montag down, instinctively considered the probability that running over a body at such a high speed might turn the car upside down and spill them out.

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

14  The air over and above the vast concrete river trembled with the warmth of Montag's body alone; it was incredible how he felt his temperature could cause the whole immediate world to vibrate.

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

15  It was like a great bee come home from some field where the honey is full of poison wildness, of insanity and nightmare, its body crammed with that over-rich nectar and now it was sleeping the evil out of itself.

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

16  Half an hour later, cold, and moving carefully on the tracks, fully aware of his entire body, his face, his mouth, his eyes stuffed with blackness, his ears stuffed with sound, his legs prickled with burrs and nettles, he saw the fire ahead.

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

17  He felt her there, he saw her without opening his eyes, her hair burnt by chemicals to a brittle straw, her eyes with a kind of cataract unseen but suspect far behind the pupils, the reddened pouting lips, the body as thin as a praying mantis from dieting, and her flesh like white bacon.

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