HORIZON in Classic Quotes

1  One arm pointed at the empty horizon.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

2  Simon stood by, looking from Ralph to the horizon.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

3  Ralph looked at the horizon, then up to the mountain.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

4  The taut blue horizon encircled them, broken only by the mountain-top.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

5  The smoke was a tight little knot on the horizon and was uncoiling slowly.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

6  Ralph looked back at the dispersing smoke in the horizon, then up at the mountain.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

7  The horizon stretched, impersonal once more, barren of all but the faintest trace of smoke.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

8  The mirages had died away and gloomily he ran his eye along the taut blue line of the horizon.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

9  The rays of the sun that were fanning upwards from below the horizon swung downwards to eye-level.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

10  Now streaks of cloud near the horizon began to glow rosily, and the feathery tops of the palms were green.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

11  The filmy enchantments of mirage could not endure the cold ocean water and the horizon was hard, clipped blue.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

12  They gazed intently at the dense blue of the horizon, as if a little silhouette might appear there at any moment.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain

13  Simon looked now, from Ralph to Jack, as he had looked from Ralph to the horizon, and what he saw seemed to make him afraid.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

14  Then, at the end of the afternoon; the mirage subsided and the horizon became level and blue and clipped as the sun declined.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

15  But there seemed something more fitting in leaving the last word till they stood on the top, and could see a circular horizon of water.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

16  Behind the four boys, the smoke moved gently along the horizon; and on the beach, Henry and Johnny were throwing sand at Percival who was crying quietly again; and all three were in complete ignorance of the excitement.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

17  A sliver of moon rose over the horizon, hardly large enough to make a path of light even when it sat right down on the water; but there were other lights in the sky, that moved fast, winked, or went out, though not even a faint popping came down from the battle fought at ten miles' height.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air