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 Current Search - Parachute in Lord of the Flies
1  Ralph remembered the ungainly figure on a parachute.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses
2  The parachute took the figure forward, furrowing the lagoon, and bumped it over the reef and out to sea.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death
3  There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air
4  Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death
5  The figure fell and crumpled among the blue flowers of the mountain-side, but now there was a gentle breeze at this height too and the parachute flopped and banged and pulled.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air
6  Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air
7  On the mountain-top the parachute filled and moved; the figure slid, rose to its feet, spun, swayed down through a vastness of wet air and trod with ungainly feet the tops of the high trees; falling, still falling, it sank toward the beach and the boys rushed screaming into the darkness.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death