EARTH in Classic Quotes

1  They lay piled among turned earth.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

2  Ralph gripped his fingers into the earth.

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

3  At last he woke and saw dimly the dark earth close by his cheek.

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

4  Ralph jerked his cheek off the earth and looked into the dulled light.

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

5  The fair boy allowed his feet to come down and sat on the steamy earth.

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

6  Ralph knelt on the plowed-up soil, and waited for the earth to come back.

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

7  He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

8  He laid his cheek against the chocolate-colored earth, licked his dry lips and closed his eyes.

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

9  Still he did not move but lay there, his face sideways on the earth, his eyes looking dully before him.

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

10  Jack stood there, streaming with sweat, streaked with brown earth, stained by all the vicissitudes of a day's hunting.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

11  Something boomed up on the red rock, then the earth jumped and began to shake steadily, while the noise as steadily increased.

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

12  At his right hand, and only a few feet away, the whole thicket bent and the roots screamed as they came out of the earth together.

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

13  A moment later the earth jolted, there was a rushing sound in the air, and the top of the thicket was cuffed as with a gigantic hand.

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

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  Then the breeze died too and there was no noise save the drip and trickle of water that ran out of clefts and spilled down, leaf by leaf, to the brown earth of the island.

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

16  Under the thicket, the earth was vibrating very slightly; or perhaps there was a sound beneath the obvious thunder of the fire and scribbled ululations that was too low to hear.

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

17  Somewhere over the darkened curve of the world the sun and moon were pulling, and the film of water on the earth planet was held, bulging slightly on one side while the solid core turned.

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