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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Samneric came close and peered at Ralph.
2 Behind him was Roger, fighting to get close.
3 Simon was close to him, laying hands on the conch.
4 The group of cloaked boys began to scatter from close line.
5 At last he woke and saw dimly the dark earth close by his cheek.
6 He lay down and put his lips close to the smudge and blew soffly.
7 Piggy was so close that Ralph could see the glint of his one glass.
8 The boy came close and peered down at Ralph, screwing up his face as he did so.
9 The clouds were sitting on the land; they squeezed, produced moment by moment this close, tormenting heat.
10 The creepers and the bushes were so close that he left his sweat on them and they pulled together behind him.
11 Three small children, no older than Johnny, appeared from startlingly close at hand, where they had been gorging fruit in the forest.
12 He looked over his shoulder as Jack had done at the close ways behind him and glanced swiftly round to confirm that he was utterly alone.
13 The pig-run kept close to the jumble of rocks that lay down by the water on the other side and Ralph was content to follow Jack along it.
14 But now we really got a beast, though I can't hardly believe it, we'll need to stay close to the platform; there'll be less need of him and his hunting.
15 So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was loaded with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness.
16 The wood he fetched was close at hand, a fallen tree on the platform that they did not need for the assembly, yet to the others the sanctity of the platform had protected even what was useless there.
17 Since they had not so far to go for light the creepers had woven a great mat that hung at the side of an open space in the jungle; for here a patch of rock came close to the surface and would not allow more than little plants and ferns to grow.
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