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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 "You make a bow and spin the arrow," said Roger.
2 On the beach behind him was a cutter, her bows hauled up and held by two ratings.
3 Then the wind blew again and the figure lifted, bowed, and breathed foully at him.
4 At last Ralph ceased to blow and sat there, the conch trailing from one hand, his head bowed on his knees.
5 So as the stars moved across the sky, the figure sat on the mountain-top and bowed and sank and bowed again.
6 Then, each time the wind dropped, the lines would slacken and the figure bow forward again, sinking its head between its knees.
7 Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.
8 For the moment the boys were a closed circuit of sympathy with Piggy outside: he went very pink, bowed his head and cleaned his glasses again.
9 He squatted on his hams at the water's edge, bowed, with a shock of hair falling over his forehead and past his eyes, and the afternoon sun emptied down invisible arrows.
10 Ralph found himself taking giant strides among the ashes, heard other creatures crying out and leaping and dared the impossible on the dark slope; presently the mountain was deserted, save for the three abandoned sticks and the thing that bowed.