STICKS in Classic Quotes

1  "You should stick a pig," said Ralph fiercely.

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

2  He fiddled with the sticks that were pushed into his hands.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air

3  By them lay a stick of charcoal brought down from the fire.

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

4  The slanting sticks of sunlight were lost among the branches.

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

5  The sticks fell and the mouth of the new circle crunched and screamed.

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

6  They lifted sticks in the air together whenever they came to an easy patch.

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

7  He rubbed the charcoal stick between the patches of red and white on his face.

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

8  Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused.

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

9  The charred sticks still lay on the rocks where the rain had quenched them but the sand by the water was smooth again.

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

10  Ralph noticed a rapid and infuriating tapping noise and realized that Roger was banging his silly wooden stick against something.

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

11  He poked about with a bit of stick, that itself was wave-worn and whitened and a vagrant, and tried to control the motions of the scavengers.

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

12  With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a moment.

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

13  A sharpened stick about five feet long trailed from his right hand, and except for a pair of tattered shorts held up by his knife-belt he was naked.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

14  A semicircle of little boys, their bodies streaked with colored clay, sharp sticks in their hands, were standing on the beach making no noise at all.

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

15  Only when Jack himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

16  The beach between the palm terrace and the water was a thin stick, endless apparently, for to Ralph's left the perspectives of palm and beach and water drew to a point at infinity; and always, almost visible, was the heat.

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

17  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