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1  A long way ahead of him was crashing and laughter.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
2  For a long time there was silence and no apparent movement.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
3  At length he let out his breath in a long sigh and opened his eyes.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
4  All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
5  They were waiting behind him in the long grass, waiting to see what he would do.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air
6  The coarse mop of black hair was long and swung down, almost concealing a low, broad forehead.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
7  The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
8  There was a long pause while the assembly grinned at the thought of anyone going out in the darkness.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
9  Percival, released, surrounded by the comfortable presence of humans, fell in the long grass and went to sleep.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
10  The only sound that reached them now through the heat of the morning was the long, grinding roar of the breakers on the reef.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
11  But instead of this a narrow ledge of rock, a few yards wide and perhaps fifteen long, continued the island out into the sea.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air
12  The tide was running so that long streaks of foam tailed away from the reef and for a moment they felt that the boat was moving steadily astern.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
13  A sharpened stick about five feet long trailed from his right hand, and except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
14  Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross on the left breast and each neck was finished off with a hambone frill.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
15  Percival Wemys Madison, of the Vicarage, Harcourt St. Anthony, lying in the long grass, was living through circumstances in which the incantation of his address was powerless to help him.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
16  Some act of God--a typhoon perhaps, or the storm that had accompanied his own arrival--had banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long, deep pool in the beach with a high ledge of pink granite at the further end.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
17  His mind was crowded with memories; memories of the knowledge that had come to them when they closed in on the struggling pig, knowledge that they had outwitted a living thing, imposed their will upon it, taken away its life like a long satisfying drink.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
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