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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 The leaves were roaring like the sea.
2 Now the forest stirred, roared, flailed.
3 The roar from the reef became very distant.
4 Far beneath them, the trees of the forest sighed, then roared.
5 The wind roared once in the forest and pushed their rags against them.
6 The blood roared again in Ralph's ears, confused images chased each other through his mind.
7 He pushed himself forward and the wind came again, stronger now, cuffing the forest heads till they ducked and roared.
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 Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar.
10 Then the wind roared in the forest, there was confusion in the darkness and the creature lifted its head, holding toward them the ruin of a face.
11 All at once the lights flickering ahead of him merged together, the roar of the forest rose to thunder and a tall bush directly in his path burst into a great fan-shaped flame.
12 Then, amid the roar of bees in the afternoon sunlight, Simon found for them the fruit they could not reach, pulled off the choicest from up in the foliage, passed them back down to the endless, outstretched hands.
13 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.