DRY in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
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1 His mouth was sucked dry from running.
2 The leaf piles flew up in a dry shower.
3 The books lay like great mounds of fishes left to dry.
4 His throat was burnt rust and his eye were wept dry with running.
5 The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain.
6 He washed his hands and face and toweled himself dry, making little sound.
7 There must have been a billion leaves on the land; he waded in them, a dry river smelling of hot cloves and warm dust.
8 The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the gray head off a dry dandelion flower.
9 Millie was not here and the Hound was not here, but the dry smell of hay blowing from some distant field put Montag on the land.
10 Montag and Beatty stared, one with dry satisfaction, the other with disbelief, at the house before them, this main ring in which torches would be juggled and fire eaten.
11 If only they could have taken her mind along to the dry cleaner's and emptied the pockets and steamed and cleansed it and reblocked it and brought it back in the morning.
12 He could feel the Hound, like autumn, come cold and dry and swift, like a wind that didn't stir grass, that didn't jar windows or disturb leaf shadows on the white sidewalks as it passed.
13 Now, the dry smell of hay, the motion of the waters, made him think of sleeping in fresh hay in a lonely barn away from the loud highways, behind a quiet farmhouse, and under an ancient windmill that whirred like the sound of the passing years overhead.
14 Somewhere the saving and putting away had to begin again and someone had to do the saving and keeping, one way or another, in books, in records, in people's heads, any way at all so long as it was safe, free from moths, silverfish, rust and dry rot, and men with matches.