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 Current Search - pretended in Lord of the Flies
1  "Or someone to pretend," said Jack.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees
2  Jack and Simon pretended to notice nothing.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
3  Ralph looked away first, pretending interest in a group of littluns on the sand.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
4  He stood knee-deep in the central grass, looking at his hidden feet, trying to pretend he was in a tent.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
5  Piggy, always clumsy, stood up and came to stand by him, so that Ralph rolled on his stomach and pretended not to see.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
6  Then Maurice pretended to be the pig and ran squealing into the center, and the hunters, circling still, pretended to beat him.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
7  If anyone peered under the bushes and chanced to glimpse human flesh it might be Samneric who would pretend not to see and say nothing.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters
8  This time Ralph expressed the intensity of his emotion by pretending to knock Simon down; and soon they were a happy, heaving pile in the under-dusk.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell