Fahrenheit 451

Jesscia W.
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  1. firehouse
    a station housing fire apparatus and firemen
    He knew that when he returned to the firehouse, he might wink at himself, a minstrel
    man, burnt-corked, in the mirror.
  2. dentifrice
    a substance for cleaning the teeth
    "Denham's Dentifrice."
  3. seashell
    the shell of a marine organism
    And in her ears the little
    Seashells, the thimble radios tamped tight, and an electronic ocean of sound, of
    music and talk and music and talk coming in, coming in on the shore of her
    unsleeping mind.
  4. fireman
    a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires
    "And you must be"-she raised her eyes from his professional symbols-"the fireman."
  5. sleeping tablet
    a soporific drug in the form of a pill
    The small crystal bottle of sleeping-tablets which earlier today had been filled
    with thirty capsules and which now lay uncapped and empty in the light of the tiny
    flare.
  6. caesarian section
    the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way)
    "I've had two children by Caesarian section.
  7. beetle
    insect having biting mouthparts
    He hung up his black-beetle-coloured helmet and shined it, he hung his flameproof
    jacket neatly; he showered luxuriously, and then, whistling, hands in pockets, walked
    across the upper floor of the fire station and fell down the hole.
  8. parlour
    a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax
    His wife in the
    TV parlour paused long enough from reading her script to glance up.
  9. salamander
    terrestrial amphibian that resembles a lizard
    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.
  10. kerosene
    a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel
    With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous
    kerosene upon the world, the blood pounded in his head, and his hands were the
    hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning
    to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.
  11. procaine
    a white crystalline powder (trade name Ethocaine) administered near nerves as a local anesthetic in dentistry and medicine
    Three seconds later the
    game was done, the rat, cat, or chicken caught half across the areaway, gripped in
    gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis
    of the Hound to inject massive jolts of morphine or procaine.
  12. water under the bridge
    past events to be put aside
    "That's water under the bridge."
  13. hound
    a dog used for hunting typically having large drooping ears
    The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently
    humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel back in a dark corner of the
    firehouse.
  14. praying mantis
    the common mantis
    The electric thimble moved like a praying
    mantis     on the pillow, touched by her hand.
  15. sieve
    a strainer for separating lumps from powdered material
    PART II
    THE SIEVE AND THE SAND
    THEY read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky
    upon the quiet house.
Created on Tue Oct 12 13:15:27 EDT 2010

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