WATER in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 And no scent, no television, no hot water, even.
2 Torrents of hot water were splashing into or gurgling out of a hundred baths.
3 He went indoors, opened the box of mustard, and put some water to boil on the fire.
4 He shut his eyes, he shook his head with the gesture of a dog shaking its ears as it emerges from the water.
5 He had a big gourd full of stuff that looked like water; only it wasn't water, but something with a bad smell that burnt your mouth and made you cough.
6 She was appalled by the rushing emptiness of the night, by the black foam-flecked water heaving beneath them, by the pale face of the moon, so haggard and distracted among the hastening clouds.
7 Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.
8 Then the leader gave a signal, and one after another, all the snakes were flung down in the middle of the square; an old man came up from underground and sprinkled them with corn meal, and from the other hatchway came a woman and sprinkled them with water from a black jar.
9 The woods, the open stretches of heather and yellow gorse, the clumps of Scotch firs, the shining ponds with their overhanging birch trees, their water lilies, their beds of rushes--these were beautiful and, to an eye accustomed to the aridities of the American desert, astonishing.