FOUR in Classic Quotes

1  Twice, thrice, four times round he went.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

2  At four thousand he started his propeller.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VI

3  Lenina and Henry were soon the four hundred and first.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

4  Sixty-two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

5  On their way up the chimney the gases go through four separate treatments.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

6  Now the world has four wombs; and he laid the seeds in the lowest of the four wombs.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VIII

7  In the four thousand rooms of the Centre the four thousand electric clocks simultaneously struck four.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter III

8  Technically, it would be perfectly simple to reduce all lower-caste working hours to three or four a day.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVI

9  Pilkington, at Mombasa, had produced individuals who were sexually mature at four and full grown at six and a half.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

10  For the safety of night-flying planes, its four tall chimneys were flood-lighted and tipped with crimson danger signals.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

11  The hands of all the four thousand electric clocks in all the Bloomsbury Centre's four thousand rooms marked twenty-seven minutes past two.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter X

12  One of them was holding a feather brush; the other carried, in either hand, what looked at a distance like three or four pieces of thick rope.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

13  Twenty-two years eight months and four days from that moment, a promising young Alpha-Minus administrator at Mwanza-Mwanza was to die of trypanosomiasis--the first case for over half a century.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIII

14  A few died; of the rest, the least susceptible divided into two; most put out four buds; some eight; all were returned to the incubators, where the buds began to develop; then, after two days, were suddenly chilled, chilled and checked.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

15  Two, four, eight, the buds in their turn budded; and having budded were dosed almost to death with alcohol; consequently burgeoned again and having budded--bud out of bud out of bud were thereafter--further arrest being generally fatal--left to develop in peace.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

16  Though it wasn't my fault, I swear; because I still don't know how it happened, seeing that I did all the Malthusian drill--you know, by numbers, One, two, three, four, always, I swear it; but all the same it happened; and of course there wasn't anything like an Abortion Centre here.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter VII

17  Flood-lighted, its three hundred and twenty metres of white Carrara-surrogate gleamed with a snowy incandescence over Ludgate Hill; at each of the four corners of its helicopter platform an immense T shone crimson against the night, and from the mouths of twenty-four vast golden trumpets rumbled a solemn synthetic music.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V