PALMS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Under the palms there was deadly silence.
2 Presently, seeing Ralph under the palms, he came and sat by him.
3 He giggled and flicked them while the boys laughed at his reeking palms.
4 A child had appeared among the palms, about a hundred yards along the beach.
5 Ralph climbed out of the bathing pool and trotted up the beach and sat in the shade beneath the palms.
6 Now streaks of cloud near the horizon began to glow rosily, and the feathery tops of the palms were green.
7 Henry walked at a distance from the palms and the shade because he was too young to keep himself out of the sun.
8 A flurry of wind made the palms talk and the noise seemed very loud now that darkness and silence made it so noticeable.
9 The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon.
10 A deep, harsh note boomed under the palms, spread through the intricacies of the forest and echoed back from the pink granite of the mountain.
11 The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach, beyond night-sight.
12 Maurice, who had been standing ready to dive, swayed back on his heels, made a bolt for the platform, then swerved back to the grass under the palms.
13 When Henry tired of his play and wandered off along the beach, Roger followed him, keeping beneath the palms and drifting casually in the same direction.
14 The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore.
15 Then he leapt back on the terrace, pulled off his shirt, and stood there among the skull-like coconuts with green shadows from the palms and the forest sliding over his skin.
16 Simon put out his hand, timidly, to touch Ralph; but Ralph started to run, splashing through the shallow end of the bathing pool, across the hot, white sand and under the palms.
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.
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