EVEN in Classic Quotes

1  He did not notice Jack even when he saw him.

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

2  I'm calling a meeting even if we have to go on into the dark.

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

3  A storm of laughter arose and even the tiniest child joined in.

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

4  There were badges, mottoes even, stripes of color in stockings and pullovers.

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

5  Piggy grinned reluctantly, pleased despite himself at even this much recognition.

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

6  They became a circle of boys round a camp fire and even Piggy and Ralph were half-drawn in.

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

7  Not even Ralph knew how a link between him and Jack had been snapped and fastened elsewhere.

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

8  Ralph picked out Jack easily, even at that distance, tall, red-haired, and inevitably leading the procession.

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

9  The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects.

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

10  In the end they skewered bits of meat on branches and held them in the flames: and even then almost as much boy was roasted as meat.

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

11  No one, not even Jack, would ask him to move and in the end they had to build the fire three yards away and in a place not really as convenient.

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

12  Percival was mouse-colored and had not been very attractive even to his mother; Johnny was well built, with fair hair and a natural belligerence.

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

13  Piggy was a bore; his fat, his ass-mar and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull, but there was always a little pleasure to be got out of pulling his leg, even if one did it by accident.

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

14  Evening was advancing toward the island; the sounds of the bright fantastic birds, the bee-sounds, even the crying of the gulls that were returning to their roosts among the square rocks, were fainter.

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

15  Of all the boys, he was the most at home there; but today, irked by the mention of rescue, the useless, footling mention of rescue, even the green depths of water and the shattered, golden sun held no balm.

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

16  By the trunk of a vast tree that grew pale flowers on its grey bark he checked, closed his eyes, and once more drew in the warm air; and this time his breath came short, there was even a passing pallor in his face, and then the surge of blood again.

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

17  Toward noon, as the floods of light fell more nearly to the perpendicular, the stark colors of the morning were smoothed in pearl and opalescence; and the heat--as though the impending sun's height gave it momentum--became a blow that they ducked, running to the shade and lying there, perhaps even sleeping.

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