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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Him that talked about the snakes.
2 He was muttering and about to cry.
3 More grave nodding; they knew about nightmares.
4 I expect there's a lot more of us scattered about.
5 Ralph and Jack looked at each other while society paused about them.
6 --and them little 'uns was wandering about down there where the fire is.'
7 A child had appeared among the palms, about a hundred yards along the beach.
8 They ate most of the day, picking fruit where they could reach it and not particular about ripeness and quality.
9 The undoubted littluns, those aged about six, led a quite distinct, and at the same time intense, life of their own.
10 He tore out the stem and began to poke about in the water, while the brilliant fish flicked away on this side and that.
11 He was a shrimp of a boy, about six years old, and one side of his face was blotted out by a mulberry-colored birthmark.
12 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.
13 When his party was about ten yards from the platform he shouted an order and they halted, gasping, sweating, swaying in the fierce light.
14 The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themlves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.
15 A sharpened stick about five feet long trailed from his right hand, and except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked.
16 You could see now that he might make a boxer, as far as width and heaviness of shoulders went, but there was a mildness about his mouth and eyes that proclaimed no devil.
17 But there was a stillness about Ralph as he sat that marked him out: there was his size, and attractive appearance; and most obscurely, yet most powerfully, there was the conch.
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