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1  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
2  Behind Jack walked the twins, carrying a great stake on their shoulders.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
3  Then Piggy was standing cradling the great cream shell and the shouting died down.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
4  Jack made a move toward Piggy who scrambled away till a great rock lay between them.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
5  There was a jumble of the usual squareness, with one great block sitting out in the lagoon.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
6  Piggy knelt by him, one hand on the great shell, listening and interpreting to the assembly.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
7  The great Pacific tide was coming in and every few seconds the relatively still water of the lagoon heaved forwards an inch.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
8  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
9  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
10  He paused in the tumult, standing, looking beyond them and down the unfriendly side of the mountain to the great patch where they had found dead wood.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
11  A great tree, fallen across one corner, leaned against the trees that still stood and a rapid climber flaunted red and yellow sprays right to the top.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
12  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.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
13  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.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
14  The great rock loitered, poised on one toe, decided not to return, moved through the air, fell, struck, turned over, leapt droning through the air and smashed a deep hole in the canopy of the forest.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
15  Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
16  Since they had not so far to go for light the creepers had woven a great mat that hung at the side of an open space in the jungle; for here a patch of rock came close to the surface and would not allow more than little plants and ferns to grow.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
17  He was also a distant relative of that other boy whose mulberry-marked face had not been seen since the evening of the great fire; but he was not old enough to understand this, and if he had been told that the other boy had gone home in an aircraft, he would have accepted the statement without fuss or disbelief.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
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