BUSINESS in Classic Quotes

1  This meeting must not be fun, but business.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

2  He knelt down again and was busy with his knife.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

3  They assured Simon that everything was a bad business.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

4  The flames, busy about the tent, drew their eyes back again.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

5  He went down the beach and busied himself at the water's edge.

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

6  Ralph, having begun the business of unburdening himself, continued.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

7  He shrank to the other side of Ralph and busied himself with his glasses.

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

8  Coming in the dark--he hadn't no business crawling like that out of the dark.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses

9  An inquisitive ant was busy in one of the eye sockets but otherwise the thing was lifeless.

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

10  And the small boys who had reached the top came sliding too till everyone but Piggy was busy.

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

11  Already the hunters were stealing away to do their business in the woods or down by the rocks.

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

12  The strange attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapors, busied themselves round his head.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death

13  A knee jerked up between his legs and he fell sideways, busying himself with his pain, and the fight rolled over him.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses

14  He had learnt as a practical business that fundamental statements like this had to be said at least twice, before everyone understood them.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

15  Simon had passed through the area of fruit trees but today the littluns had been too busy with the fire on the beach and they had not pursued him there.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

16  Then they broke out into the sunlight and for a while they were busy finding and devouring food as they moved down the scar toward the platform and the meeting.

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

17  They traveled the length of the island with an air of disregarding it and being set on other business; they were less a progress than a momentous rise and fall of the whole ocean.

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