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1  The circle shivered with dread.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
2  The twins, holding tremulously to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter and spread the dreadful news.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air
3  From the darkness of the further end of the shelter came a dreadful moaning and they shattered the leaves in their fear.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses
4  There were little boys, fair, dark, freckled, and all dirty, but their faces were all dreadfully free of major blemishes.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
5  Most, he was beginning to dread the curtain that might waver in his brain, blacking out the sense of danger, making a simpleton of him.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters
6  This dreadful eruption from an unknown world made her frantic; she squealed and bucked and the air was full of sweat and noise and blood and terror.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
7  Other people could stand up and speak to an assembly, apparently, without that dreadful feeling of the pressure of personality; could say what they would as though they were speaking to only one person.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air
8  The afternoon wore on, hazy and dreadful with damp heat; the sow staggered her way ahead of them, bleeding and mad, and the hunters followed, wedded to her in lust, excited by the long chase and the dropped blood.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness