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 Current Search - slope in Lord of the Flies
1  Piggy lay back against the sloping sand side of the pool.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death
2  Once more they set out to climb the slope of the mountain.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees
3  He crept down a slope to rocks and scattered trees by the sea.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
4  Soon some of the boys were rushing down the slope for more wood while Jack hacked the pig.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
5  They scrambled down a rock slope, dropped among flowers and made their way under the trees.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
6  Ralph paddled backwards down the slope, immersed his mouth and blew a jet of water into the air.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
7  As they came to the last slope, Jack and Roger drew near, changed from the ink-stains to distinguishable figures.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees
8  Ralph sketched a twining line from the bald spot on which they stood down a slope, a gully, through flowers, round and down to the rock where the scar started.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
9  One must remember to wake at first light, in order to diddle the savages--and he did not know how quickly sleep came and hurled him down a dark interior slope.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters
10  Nothing but what you might expect: pink, tumbled boulders with guano layered on them like icing; and a steep slope up to the shattered rocks that crowned the bastion.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air
11  The slope of the bars of honey-colored sunlight decreased; they slid up the bushes, passed over the green candle-like buds, moved up toward the canopy, and darkness thickened under the trees.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
12  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.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
13  On either side rocks, cliffs, treetops and a steep slope: forward there, the length of the boat, a tamer descent, tree-clad, with hints of pink: and then the jungly flat of the island, dense green, but drawn at the end to a pink tail.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
14  Ralph found himself taking giant strides among the ashes, heard other creatures crying out and leaping and dared the impossible on the dark slope; presently the mountain was deserted, save for the three abandoned sticks and the thing that bowed.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees