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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 He paused for breath, and the fire growled at them.
2 Simon, struggling with the bushes, caught his breath.
3 The silence grew oppressive and Piggy held his breath.
4 Ralph found his breath and blew a series of short blasts.
5 Piggy arrived, out of breath and whimpering like a littlun.
6 At length he let out his breath in a long sigh and opened his eyes.
7 Something strange was happening to Piggy, for he was gasping for breath.
8 Holding his breath he cocked a critical ear at the sounds of the island.
9 He laid the conch against his lips, took a deep breath and blew once more.
10 Ralph let out his spare breath with a little gasp that was echoed by his audience.
11 Piggy paused for breath and stroked the glistening thing that lay in Ralph's hands.
12 Ralph's breath failed; the note dropped the octave, became a low wubber, was a rush of air.
13 By the time Ralph had reached the landward end of the scar he was using precious breath to swear.
14 The crying went on, breath after breath, and seemed to sustain him upright as if he were nailed to it.
15 But when he says there's only pigs on this island I expect he's right but he doesn't know, not really, not certainly I mean-- Maurice took a breath.
16 Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees.
17 By the trunk of a vast tree that grew pale flowers on its grey bark he checked, closed his eyes, and once more drew in the warm air; and this time his breath came short, there was even a passing pallor in his face, and then the surge of blood again.
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