PALM in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 The shore was fledged with palm trees.
2 Ralph lay flat and looked up at the palm trees and the sky.
3 The palm sapling, bending, pushed the shell across the weeds.
4 The space under the palm trees was full of noise and movement.
5 Near to Ralph's elbow a palm sapling leaned out over the lagoon.
6 Taking their cue from the innocent Johnny, they sat down on the fallen palm trunks and waited.
7 The top of this was covered with a thin layer of soil and coarse grass and shaded with young palm trees.
8 He jumped off the palm terrace into the sand and his trousers fell about his ankles; he stepped out of them and trotted to the platform.
9 Ralph was standing by a contraption of palm trunks and leaves, a rude shelter that faced the lagoon and seemed very near to falling down.
10 He patted the palm trunk softly, and, forced at last to believe in the reality of the island laughed delightedly again and stood on his head.
11 At first he had hidden behind a great palm; but Henry's absorption with the transparencies was so obvious that at last he stood out in full view.
12 Bill, Robert, Harold, Henry; the choir boy who had fainted sat up against a palm trunk, smiled pallidly at Ralph and said that his name was Simon.
13 The ground beneath them was a bank covered with coarse grass, torn everywhere by the upheavals of fallen trees, scattered with decaying coconuts and palm saplings.
14 Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea.
15 When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.
16 Swearing, he turned off the trail and pushed his way through until the forest opened a little and instead of bald trunks supporting a dark roof there were light grey trunks and crowns of feathery palm.
17 The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin stick, endless apparently, for to Ralph's left the perspectives of palm and beach and water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost visible, was the heat.
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