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1  Ralph spoke first, crimson in the face.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
2  When they had fallen apart Ralph spoke first.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
3  The older boys first noticed the child when he resisted.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
4  Ralph was already clambering over the first smashed swathes of the scar.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
5  Ralph looked away first, pretending interest in a group of littluns on the sand.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
6  The first rhythm that they became used to was the slow swing from dawn to quick dusk.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
7  They flapped at the first of the trees, and the branches grew a brief foliage of fire.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
8  Ralph saw it first, and watched till the intentness of his gaze drew all eyes that way.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
9  But the first time Ralph says 'fire' you goes howling and screaming up this here mountain.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
10  Jack, his face smeared with clays, reached the top first and hailed Ralph excitedly, with lifted spear.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
11  The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
12  Here, the eye was first attracted to a black, bat-like creature that danced on the sand, and only later perceived the body above it.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
13  He picked his way up the scar, passed the great rock where Ralph had climbed on the first morning, then turned off to his right among the trees.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
14  At first he had hidden behind a great palm; but Henry's absorption with the transparencies was so obvious that at last he stood out in full view.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
15  The twins, Sam 'n Eric, were the first to get a likely log but they could do nothing till Ralph, Jack, Simon, Roger and Maurice found room for a hand-hold.'
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
16  The flame, nearly invisible at first in that bright sunlight, enveloped a small twig, grew, was enriched with color and reached up to a branch which exploded with a sharp crack.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
17  He was not noticeably darker than when he had dropped in, but the shock of black hair, down his nape and low on his forehead, seemed to suit his gloomy face and made what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness into something forbidding.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
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