HELICOPTER in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 'Safe as helicopters,' the octoroon assured him.
2 An incessant buzzing of helicopters filled the twilight.
3 The air was drowsy with the murmur of bees and helicopters.
4 He started the engines and threw the helicopter screws into gear.
5 He took John's arm affectionately and they walked back towards the helicopter.
6 But her ruddy-faced companion had bolted out of harm's way behind the helicopter.
7 Still laughing, he threw the helicopter screws into gear, accelerated, and was gone.
8 The roof of the main building was alive with the alighting and departure of helicopters.
9 Punctually, on the following morning, at ten o'clock, the green-uniformed octoroon stepped out of his helicopter.
10 At eight hundred feet Henry slowed down the helicopter screws, and they hung for a minute or two poised above the fading landscape.
11 Henry kept his eye on the revolution-counter; when the needle touched the twelve hundred mark, he threw the helicopter screws out of gear.
12 On their way back across the Channel, Bernard insisted on stopping his propeller and hovering on his helicopter screws within a hundred feet of the waves.
13 The door of the helicopter opened, and out stepped, first a fair and ruddy-faced young man, then, in green velveteen shorts, white shirt, and jockey cap, a young woman.
14 But the Savage had suddenly broken away from his companions and was violently retching, behind a clump of laurels, as though the solid earth had been a helicopter in an air pocket.
15 The summer afternoon was drowsy with the hum of passing helicopters; and the deeper drone of the rocket-planes hastening, invisible, through the bright sky five or six miles overhead was like a caress on the soft air.
16 Yet another helicopter had arrived from across the Hog's Back, hung poised above the crowd, then dropped within a few yards of where the Savage was standing, in the open space between the line of sightseers and the lighthouse.
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.
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