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1  Jack was the first to make himself heard.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
2  Sitting, Ralph was aware of the heat for the first time that day.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees
3  They found another pig-run parallel to the first and Jack raced away.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees
4  Ralph was already clambering over the first smashed swathes of the scar.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
5  Ralph looked back at Jack, seeing him, infuriatingly, for the first time.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees
6  Roger began to withdraw his spear and boys noticed it for the first time.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
7  For the first time since he had first known Jack, Ralph could feel him hesitate.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees
8  They flapped at the first of the trees, and the branches grew a brief foliage of fire.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
9  The littluns who had seen few fires since the first catastrophe became wildly excited.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
10  But the first time Ralph says 'fire' you goes howling and screaming up this here mountain.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
11  Then for the first time he saw how few biguns there were and understood why the work had been so hard.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
12  For the first time on the island, Piggy himself removed his one glass, knelt down and focused the sun on tinder.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
13  The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
14  He picked his way up the scar, passed the great rock where Ralph had climbed on the first morning, then turned off to his right among the trees.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach
15  The twins, Sam 'n Eric, were the first to get a likely log but they could do nothing till Ralph, Jack, Simon, Roger and Maurice found room for a hand-hold.'
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
16  You could see the damp spot where each flake died, then you could mark the first flake that lay down without melting and watch, the whole ground turn white.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees
17  Eric watched the scurrying woodlice that were so frantically unable to avoid the flames, and thought of the first fire--just down there, on the steeper side of the mountain, where now was complete darkness.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SIX Beast from Air
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