BIRD in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 The birds cried, small animals scuttered.
2 He had some white stones too, an a bird cage with a green parrot.
3 They tried the forest but it was thick and woven like a bird's nest.
4 They found fruit in a haunt of bright little birds that hovered like insects.
5 Clouds of birds rose from the treetops, and something squealed and ran in the undergrowth.
6 The forests re-echoed; and birds lifted, crying out of the treetops, as on that first morning ages ago.
7 The cry swept by him across the narrow end of the island from sea to lagoon, like the cry of a flying bird.
8 A single sea bird flapped upwards with a hoarse cry that was echoed presently, and something squawked in the forest.
9 This last piece of shop brought sniggers from the choir, who perched like black birds on the criss-cross trunks and examined Ralph with interest.
10 Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life.
11 Echoes and birds flew, white and pink dust floated, the forest further down shook as with the passage of an enraged monster: and then the island was still.
12 He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.
13 Only when Jack himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages.
14 Evening was advancing toward the island; the sounds of the bright fantastic birds, the bee-sounds, even the crying of the gulls that were returning to their roosts among the square rocks, were fainter.