TOOK in Classic Quotes

1  He took one step toward Montag.

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

2  The Hound took a step from its kennel.

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

3  The old man took a deep breath, held it, and let it out.

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

4  He took another, eyes closed, his mouth tight, and at last exhaled.

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

5  The pole, reacting, slid upward, and took him through the ceiling, quietly.

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

6  He looked down into her face and took hold of her chin and held her firmly.

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

7  He took time to prepare and light his brass pipe and puff out a great smoke cloud.

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

8  Faber backed up, as if he feared the book might vanish if he took his eyes from it.

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

9  Beatty took a full minute to settle himself in and think back for what he wanted to say.

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

10  He put his hand back up and took out two books and moved his hand down and dropped the two books to the floor.

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

11  Instinctively he took a few quick running steps then talked out loud to himself and pulled up to stroll again.

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

12  It took the better part of fifteen minutes before he drew very close indeed to it, and then he stood looking at it from cover.

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

13  He took Montag quickly into the bedroom and lifted a picture frame aside revealing a television screen the size of a postal card.

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

14  Montag took the four remaining books and hopped, jolted, hopped his way down the alley and suddenly fell as if his head had been cut off and only his body lay there.

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

15  Then he reached up and pulled back the grill of the air-conditioning system and reached far back inside to the right and moved still another sliding sheet of metal and took out a book.

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

16  He took hold of a straight-backed chair and moved it slowly and steadily into the hall near the front door and climbed up on it and stood for a moment like a statue on a pedestal, his wife standing under him, waiting.

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

17  And the men with the cigarettes in their straight-lined mouths, the men with the eyes of puff adders, took up their load of machine and tube, their case of liquid melancholy and the slow dark sludge of nameless stuff, and strolled out the door.

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