CLIFF in Classic Quotes

1  Ralph turned away to the red cliff.

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

2  Roger clambered up the ladder-like cliff.

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

3  He saw that he could climb the cliff but this was not necessary.

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

4  The rock of the cliff was split and the top littered with great lumps that seemed to totter.

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

5  He ran backwards and forwards along the cliff, his face always to the sea, and his voice rose insanely.

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

6  Ralph ran stumbling along the rocks, saved himself on the edge of the pink cliff, and screamed at the ship.

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

7  The pink granite of the next cliff was further back from the creepers and trees so that they could trot up the path.

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

8  The red rock that he could see at the top of the cliff vanished like a curtain, and he could see figures and blue sky.

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

9  He peered with elaborate caution between branches at the edge and could see Robert sitting on guard at the top of the cliff.

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

10  As he prepared to let himself down the cliff, Ralph snatched at the last possible advantage to be wrung out of this meeting.

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

11  Roger, sitting on the very edge of the cliff, looked somberly back at the island as he worked with his fingers at a loose tooth.

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

12  Then he sat carefully on a fallen trunk near the little cliff that fronted the lagoon; and the tangled reflections quivered over him.

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

13  As he turned, the base cracked and the whole mass toppled into the sea so that a thunderous plume of spray leapt half-way up the cliff.

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

14  He was aware of a jolt in the earth that came to him through the soles of his feet, and the breaking sound of stones at the top of the cliff.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ELEVEN Castle Rock

15  So they proceeded after that as if they were climbing a dangerous mountain, until the rocks became an uncompromising cliff, overhung with impossible jungle and falling sheer into the sea.

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

16  The most usual feature of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted by a skewed block; and that again surmounted, and that again, till the pinkness became a stack of balanced rock projecting through the looped fantasy of the forest creepers.

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

17  Now the sea would suck down, making cascades and waterfalls of retreating water, would sink past the rocks and plaster down the seaweed like shining hair: then, pausing, gather and rise with a roar, irresistibly swelling over point and outcrop, climbing the little cliff, sending at last an arm of surf up a gully to end a yard or so from him in fingers of spray.

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