PULLING in Classic Quotes

1  He pulled his arm away from Piggy.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ELEVEN Castle Rock

2  Jack nodded and pulled at his underlip.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain

3  He pulled himself between the ferns, tunneling in.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters

4  There was pushing and pulling and officious cries.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain

5  Jack went very red as he hacked and pulled at the pig.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

6  Then he opened the zipper with decision and pulled the whole wind-breaker over his head.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

7  Indeed, the weight was already pulling a lump from the poor soil and soon it would fall.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

8  His trousers had been lowered for an obvious purpose and had only been pulled back half-way.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

9  Ralph pulled himself out of the water, stood facing Piggy, and considered this unusual problem.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

10  The creepers and the bushes were so close that he left his sweat on them and they pulled together behind him.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

11  He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

12  They raised wet lips at Ralph, for they seemed provided with not quite enough skin, so that their profiles were blurred and their mouths pulled open.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

13  Most of the wood was so rotten that when they pulled, it broke up into a shower of fragments and woodlice and decay; but some trunks came out in one piece.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain

14  Then he leapt back on the terrace, pulled off his shirt, and stood there among the skull-like coconuts with green shadows from the palms and the forest sliding over his skin.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

15  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

16  Piggy was a bore; his fat, his ass-mar and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull, but there was always a little pleasure to be got out of pulling his leg, even if one did it by accident.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

17  Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach