TWINS in Classic Quotes

1  And his twins were of the same opinion.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVIII

2  A murmur of satisfaction went up from the expectant twins.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XV

3  One at a time, with no shoving, the twins stepped forward.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XV

4  'I come to bring you freedom,' said the Savage, turning back towards the twins.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XV

5  Standing in the centre of a ring of zipper-hunting twins, the Head Nurse looked round.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIV

6  What seemed an interminable stream of identical eight-year-old male twins was pouring into the room.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIV

7  Eight identical Dravidian twins in khaki looked out of the eight portholes of the cabin--the stewards.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XI

8  Slackly, it seemed to him, and with reluctance, the twin attendants wheeled his plane out on the roof.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV

9  But, looking round, she saw that half a dozen twins were already on their feet and advancing down the ward.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIV

10  In tears, the Deltas were kissing and hugging one another--half a dozen twins at a time in a comprehensive embrace.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XV

11  The hangars were staffed by a single Bokanovsky Group, and the men were twins, identically small, black and hideous.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter IV

12  Still, she led the too inquisitive twins away and made them join in the game of hunt-the-zipper, which had been organized by one of her colleagues at the other end of the room.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XIV

13  Fertilize and bokanovskify--in other words, multiply by seventy-two--and you get an average of nearly eleven thousand brothers and sisters in a hundred and fifty batches of identical twins, all within two years of the same age.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter I

14  The menial staff of the Park Lane Hospital for the Dying consisted of one hundred and sixty-two Deltas divided into two Bokanovsky Groups of eighty-four red-headed female and seventy-eight dark dolichocephalic male twins, respectively.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XV

15  A fresh supply of pill-boxes was brought in from the Bursary; a new distribution was hastily made and, to the sound of the Voice's richly affectionate, baritone valedictions, the twins dispersed, blubbering as though their hearts would break.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XV

16  And when, exhausted, the Sixteen had laid by their sexophones and the Synthetic Music apparatus was producing the very latest in slow Malthusian Blues, they might have been twin embryos gently rocking together on the waves of a bottled ocean of blood-surrogate.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter V

17  He realized to his dismay that, absorbed in the whittling of his bow, he had forgotten what he had sworn to himself he would constantly remember--poor Linda, and his own murderous unkindness to her, and those loathsome twins, swarming like lice across the mystery of her death, insulting, with their presence, not merely his own grief and repentance, but the very gods themselves.

Brave New World By Aldous Huxley
Context   In Chapter XVIII