FLAMING in Classic Quotes

1  He twitched the safety catch on the flame thrower.

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

2  The stars poured over his sight like flaming meteors.

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

3  Montag snapped the safety catch on the flame thrower.

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

4  Not with kerosene and a match, but piecework, with a flame thrower.

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

5  Montag kept his sickness down long enough to aim the flame thrower.

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

6  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

7  He stood a long long time, listening to the warm crackle of the flames.

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

8  Montag grinned the fierce grin of all men singed and driven back by flame.

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

9  Beatty flicked his igniter nearby and the small orange flame drew his fascinated gaze.

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

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  These men who looked steadily into their platinum igniter flames as they lit their eternally burning black pipes.

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

12  Montag felt himself turn and walk to the wall slot and drop the book in through the brass notch to the waiting flames.

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

13  Montag stood with the flame thrower in his limp hands, great islands of perspiration drenching his armpits, his face smeared with soot.

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

14  And as before, it was good to burn, he felt himself gush out in the fire, snatch, rend, rip in half with flame, and put away the senseless problem.

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

15  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

16  And then he was a shrieking blaze, a jumping, sprawling gibbering manikin, no longer human or known, all writhing flame on the lawn as Montag shot one continuous pulse of liquid fire on him.

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

17  Montag caught it with a bloom of fire, a single wondrous blossom that curled in petals of yellow and blue and orange about the metal dog, clad it in a new covering as it slammed into Montag and threw him ten feet back against the bole of a tree, taking the flame gun with him.

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