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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 "Wait a minute," the voice said.
2 I bet if I blew the conch this minute, they'd come running.
3 Piggy knelt at his left, and for a long minute there was silence.
4 Not for five minutes could they drag themselves away from this triumph.
5 Every minute the water breathed round the death rock and flowered into a field of whiteness.
6 Yet no one made a sound; and as the minutes passed, in the green shade, his feeling of triumph faded.
7 The nearer acres of rock flowers fluttered and for half a minute the breeze blew cool on their faces.
8 This amused both boys so much that Ralph went on squirting for some minutes, between bouts of laughter.
9 The edge of the lagoon became a streak of phosphorescence which advanced minutely, as the great wave of the tide flowed.
10 Yet as the words became audible, the procession reached the steepest part of the mountain, and in a minute or two the chant had died away.
11 Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees.