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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 The plane was shot down in flames.
2 Behind him, the whole island was shuddering with flame.
3 The flame flapped higher and the boys broke into a cheer.
4 Soon there was a ceiling of smoke and a bush of yellow flame.
5 Eric breathed on the wood till it glowed and sent out a little flame.
6 Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame.
7 A flame, seemingly detached, swung like an acrobat and licked up the palm heads on the platform.
8 To keep a clean flag of flame flying on the mountain was the immediate end and no one looked further.
9 Jack knelt too and blew gently, so that the smoke drifted away, thickening, and a tiny flame appeared.
10 At the sight of the flames and the irresistible course of the fire, the boys broke into shrill, excited cheering.
11 Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing.
12 The heart of flame leapt nimbly across the gap between the trees and then went swinging and flaring along the whole row of them.
13 The beard of flame diminished quickly; then the pile fell inwards with a soft, cindery sound, and sent a great tree of sparks upwards that leaned away and drifted downwind.
14 All at once the lights flickering ahead of him merged together, the roar of the forest rose to thunder and a tall bush directly in his path burst into a great fan-shaped flame.
15 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.
16 The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame twenty feet in the air.
17 The pile was so rotten, and now so tinder-dry, that whole limbs yielded passionately to the yellow flames that poured upwards and shook a great beard of flame twenty feet in the air.
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