EXPRESSION in Classic Quotes

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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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 Current Search - expression in Lord of the Flies
1  Words could not express the dull pain of these things.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters
2  The expression of pain and concentration returned to Piggy's face.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
3  The effort to express the mathematical processes involved was too great.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
4  Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
5  An expression of pain and inward concentration altered the pale contours of his face.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
6  He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
7  Simon broke off and turned to Piggy who was looking at him with an expression of derisive incomprehension.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
8  As an answer Jack dropped into the uncomprehending silence that followed it the one crude expressive syllable.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
9  He walked drearily between the trunks, his face empty of expression, and the blood was dry round his mouth and chin.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death
10  This time Ralph expressed the intensity of his emotion by pretending to knock Simon down; and soon they were a happy, heaving pile in the under-dusk.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
11  Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch, turned toward the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain