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1 He listened carefully but could only just hear them.
2 He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow.
3 In the west, and unheeded, the sun lay only an inch or two above the sea.
4 He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth.
5 I was the only boy in our school what had asthma, said the fat boy with a touch of pride.
6 His trousers had been lowered for an obvious purpose and had only been pulled back half-way.
7 The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.
8 The only sound that reached them now through the heat of the morning was the long, grinding roar of the breakers on the reef.
9 There was only the faintest indication of a trail here; a cracked twig and what might be the impression of one side of a hoof.
10 Here, the eye was first attracted to a black, bat-like creature that danced on the sand, and only later perceived the body above it.
11 All the warm salt water of the bathing pool and the shouting and splashing and laughing were only just sufficient to bring them together again.
12 Round the castles was a complex of marks, tracks, walls, railway lines, that were of significance only if inspected with the eye at beach-level.
13 As he received the reassurance of something purposeful being done he began to look satisfied, and his only clean digit, a pink thumb, slid into his mouth.
14 But the island ran true to form and the incredible pool, which clearly was only invaded by the sea at high tide, was so deep at one end as to be dark green.
15 Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea.
16 There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labor.
17 Their only guide, apart from the brown ground and occasional flashes of light through the foliage, was the tendency of slope: whether this hole, laced as it was with the cables of creeper, stood higher than that.
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