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1  The flies had found the figure too.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death
2  After a while these flies found Simon.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
3  The pile of guts was a black blob of flies that buzzed like a saw.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
4  They listened, and the loudest noise was the buzzing of flies over the spilled guts.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
5  Simon, forgetful of the flies, shaded his eyes with both hands and peered at the smoke.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death
6  To keep a clean flag of flame flying on the mountain was the immediate end and no one looked further.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
7  When the creepers shook the flies exploded from the guts with a vicious note and clamped back on again.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death
8  Someone tripped over Ralph and Piggy's corner became a complication of snarls and crashes and flying limbs.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses
9  The cry swept by him across the narrow end of the island from sea to lagoon, like the cry of a flying bird.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters
10  Another spear, a bent one that would not fly straight, went past his face and one fell from on high where Roger was.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ELEVEN Castle Rock
11  Nothing prospered but the flies who blackened their lord and made the spilt guts look like a heap of glistening coal.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death
12  Then as the blue material of the parachute collapsed the corpulent figure would bow forward, sighing, and the flies settle once more.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death
13  The boy himself came forward, vaulted on to the platform with his cloak flying, and peered into what to him was almost complete darkness.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
14  He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear on flying feet, rushing through the forest toward the open beach.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters
15  He opened his eyes quickly and there was the head grinning amusedly in the strange daylight, ignoring the flies, the spilled guts, even ignoring the indignity of being spiked on a stick.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness