HALF in Classic Quotes

1  He held it half in, half out of his ear.

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

2  I know a man who printed our college paper half a century ago.

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

3  Her head was half bent to watch her shoes stir the circling leaves.

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

4  I've waited, trembling, half a lifetime for someone to speak to me.

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

5  , case like this; all you need is two handymen, clean up the problem in half an hour.

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

6  Good God, it isn't as simple as just picking up a book you laid down half a century ago.

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

7  Twice in half an hour, Montag had to rise from the game to go to the latrine to wash his hands.

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

8  He was now half across the street, but the roar from the beetle's engines whined higher as it put on speed.

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

9  The Hound half rose in its kennel and looked at him with green-blue neon light flickering in its suddenly activated eye bulbs.

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

10  He saw her in her hotel room somewhere now in the half second remaining with the bombs a yard, a foot, an inch from her building.

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

11  Montag sat on the cold fender of the Dragon, moving his head half an inch to the left, half an inch to the right, left, right, left, right, left.

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

12  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

13  It was half across the lawn, coming from the shadows, moving with such drifting ease that it was like a single solid cloud of black-gray smoke blown at him in silence.

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

14  After all the running and rushing and sweating it out and half drowning, to come this far, work this hard, and think yourself safe and sigh with relief and come out on the land at last only to find.

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

15  The earthquake was still shaking and falling and shivering inside him and he stood there, his knees half bent under the great load of tiredness and bewilderment and outrage, letting Beatty hit him without raising a hand.

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

16  In the morning he would not have needed sleep, for all the warm odors and sights of a complete country night would have rested and slept him while his eyes were wide and his mouth, when he thought to test it, was half a smile.

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

17  Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped in gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.

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