MOVE in Classic Quotes

1  Piggy moved among the crowd, asking names and frowning to remember them.

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

2  The twins moved toward Jack and began to protest timidly about something.

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

3  He forced his feet to move until they had carried him out on to the neck of land.

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

4  This one, against which Jack leaned, moved with a grating sound when they pushed.

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

5  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

6  Nothing moved but a pair of gaudy butterflies that danced round each other in the hot air.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

7  Still he did not move but lay there, his face sideways on the earth, his eyes looking dully before him.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death

8  The air moved a little faster and became a light wind, so that leeward and windward side were clearly differentiated.

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

9  There was only one other rock up there that they might conceivably move; but that was half as big as a cottage, big as a car, a tank.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters

10  Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood.

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

11  Ralph chose the firm strip as a path because he needed to think, and only here could he allow his feet to move without having to watch them.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

12  No one, not even Jack, would ask him to move and in the end they had to build the fire three yards away and in a place not really as convenient.

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

13  Then they broke out into the sunlight and for a while they were busy finding and devouring food as they moved down the scar toward the platform and the meeting.

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

14  When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.

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

15  The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward the canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

16  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

17  The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors.

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