FLAMES in Classic Quotes
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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 Piggy stood up and pointed to the smoke and flames.
3 The flame flapped higher and the boys broke into a cheer.
4 The flames, busy about the tent, drew their eyes back again.
5 The hair on their foreheads fluttered and flames blew out sideways from the fire.
6 He noticed, without understanding, how the flames were visible now against the dull light.
7 A fire burned on the rock and fat dripped from the roasting pigmeat into the invisible flames.
8 The flames were mastering the branches, the bark was curling and falling away, the wood exploding.
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 He saw a shelter burst into flames and the fire flapped at his right shoulder and there was the glitter of water.
12 Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing.
13 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.
14 The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.
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 Eric watched the scurrying woodlice that were so frantically unable to avoid the flames, and thought of the first fire--just down there, on the steeper side of the mountain, where now was complete darkness.
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