PAST in Classic Quotes

1  They flushed and looked past him into the air.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses

2  The officer looked past him to the group of painted boys.

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

3  He swerved as a spear flew past and then was silent, running.

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

4  The twins made a bolt past Ralph and got between him and the entry.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ELEVEN Castle Rock

5  Lifting his feet high out of the sand, Ralph started to stroll past.

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

6  Roger edged past the chief, only just avoiding pushing him with his shoulder.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ELEVEN Castle Rock

7  He pointed past them to where the trickle of smoke dispersed in the pearly air.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ELEVEN Castle Rock

8  Then the red thing was past and the elephantine progress diminished toward the sea.

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

9  Ralph, Jack and Simon jumped off the platform and walked along the sand past the bathing pool.

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

10  Just behind the cottage there was a sort of shed and you could lie up there, watching the flakes swirl past.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

11  Another spear, a bent one that would not fly straight, went past his face and one fell from on high where Roger was.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ELEVEN Castle Rock

12  He meant to refuse meat, but his past diet of fruit and nuts, with an odd crab or fish, gave him too little resistance.

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

13  You could go indoors when you were cold and look out of the window, past the bright copper kettle and the plate with the little blue men.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

14  He had just time to realize that the age-long nightmares of falling and death were past and that the morning was come, when he heard the sound again.

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

15  He squatted on his hams at the water's edge, bowed, with a shock of hair falling over his forehead and past his eyes, and the afternoon sun emptied down invisible arrows.

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

16  After that the rocks seemed to be growing impassable so they sat for a time, letting their rags dry and watching the clipped outlines of the rollers that moved so slowly past the island.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

17  Now the sea would suck down, making cascades and waterfalls of retreating water, would sink past the rocks and plaster down the seaweed like shining hair: then, pausing, gather and rise with a roar, irresistibly swelling over point and outcrop, climbing the little cliff, sending at last an arm of surf up a gully to end a yard or so from him in fingers of spray.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees