1 He's read enough so he has all the answers, or seems to have.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand 2 Already, in a few short hours, it seemed that he had known Faber for a lifetime.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand 3 The bloodstream in this woman was new and it seemed to have done a new thing to her.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 4 Then she seemed to remember something and came back to look at him with wonder and curiosity.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 5 The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the gray head off a dry dandelion flower.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright 6 Even now it seemed to want to get back at him and finish the injection which was now working through the flesh of his leg.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright 7 Why, he thought, now that I think of it, she almost seemed to be waiting for me there, in the street, so damned late at night.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 8 At the last moment, when disaster seemed positive, he pulled his hands from his pockets and broke his fall by grasping the golden pole.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 9 The air seemed charged with a special calm as if someone had waited there, quietly, and only a moment before he came, simply turned to a shadow and let him through.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 10 But he knew his mouth had only moved to say hello, and then when she seemed hypnotized by the salamander on his arm and the phoenix-disc on his chest, he spoke again.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 11 It seemed like a boatless river frozen there in the raw light of the high white arc lamps; you could drown trying to cross it, he felt; it was too wide, it was too open.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 3: Burning Bright 12 He stood looking up at the ventilator grill in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grill, something that seemed to peer down at him now.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 13 It growled again, a strange rasping combination of electrical sizzle, a frying sound, a scraping of metal, a turning of cogs that seemed rusty and ancient with suspicion.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 14 For these were the hands that had acted on their own, no part of him, here was where the conscience first manifested itself to snatch books, dart off with Job and Ruth and Willie Shakespeare, and now, in the firehouse, these hands seemed gloved with blood.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 2: The Sieve and the Sand 15 It was a flaking three-story house in the ancient part of the city, a century old if it was a day, but like all houses it had been given a thin fireproof plastic sheath many years ago, and this preservative shell seemed to be the only thing holding it in the sky.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 16 She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patterns, talking jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.
Fahrenheit 451 By Ray BradburyContext In PART 1: The Hearth and the Salamander 17 Beatty never drove, but he was driving tonight, slamming the Salamander around corners, leaning forward high on the driver's throne, his massive black slicker flapping out behind so that he seemed a great black bat flying above the engine, over the brass numbers, taking the full wind.
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