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 Current Search - Avoid in Lord of the Flies
1  He shifted restlessly but there was no avoiding the sun.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
2  Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ELEVEN Castle Rock
3  There was a slight, furtive boy whom no one knew, who kept to himself with an inner intensity of avoidance and secrecy.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
4  He licked his lips and turned his head at an angle, so that his gaze avoided the embarrassment of linking with another's eye.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
5  More than this, in order to avoid going deep into the forest the boys worked near at hand on any fallen wood no matter how tangled with new growth.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
6  This time Robert and Maurice acted the two parts; and Maurice's acting of the pig's efforts to avoid the advancing spear was so funny that the boys cried with laughter.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
7  Eric watched the scurrying woodlice that were so frantically unable to avoid the flames, and thought of the first fire--just down there, on the steeper side of the mountain, where now was complete darkness.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air