STONES in Classic Quotes

1  Then Henry lost interest in stones and wandered off.

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

2  Roger gathered a handful of stones and began to throw them.

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

3  He had some white stones too, an a bird cage with a green parrot.

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

4  The boys chose their way through defiles and over heaps of sharp stone.

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

5  Roger stooped, picked up a stone, aimed, and threw it at Henry-- threw it to miss.

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

6  Wild ponies came to the stone wall at the bottom of the garden, and it had snowed.

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

7  He leaned his spear against the rocking stone and pushed back two handfuls of hair.

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

8  A procession had appeared, far down among the pink stones that lay near the water's edge.

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

9  The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water.

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

10  Yet now, he saw, no one had had the wit--not himself nor Jack, nor Piggy--to bring a stone and wedge the thing.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

11  These castles were about one foot high and were decorated with shells, withered flowers, and interesting stones.

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

12  This side and that the stones fell, and Henry turned obediently but always too late to see the stones in the air.

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

13  Roger led the way straight through the castles, kicking them over, burying the flowers, scattering the chosen stones.

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

14  One had to sit, attracting all eyes to the conch, and drop words like heavy round stones among the little groups that crouched or squatted.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water

15  He was aware of a jolt in the earth that came to him through the soles of his feet, and the breaking sound of stones at the top of the cliff.

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

16  The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore.

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

17  Yard by yard, puff by puff, the breeze hauled the figure through the blue flowers, over the boulders and red stones, till it lay huddled among the shattered rocks of the mountain-top.

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