THE ROCK in Classic Quotes

1  Simon felt his knees smack the rock.

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

2  Jack began to clean his bloody hands on the rock.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

3  Jack led the way down the rock and across the bridge.

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

4  Over there, where there used to be a gap in the rock.

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

5  It was easy going, and soon he was peering round the rock.

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

6  There was indeed a long green smudge half-way up the rock.

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

7  They came to the flat top where the rock was hard to hands and knees.

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

8  They could edge along them, deep in the plant world, their faces to the rock.

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

9  Then they inched the grotesque dead thing up the rock and toppled it over on top.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain

10  The twins stood with the pig swinging between them, dropping black gouts on the rock.

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

11  A fire burned on the rock and fat dripped from the roasting pigmeat into the invisible flames.

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

12  The beast struggled forward, broke the ring and fell over the steep edge of the rock to the sand by the water.

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

13  Then he started work on the sow and paunched her, lugging out the hot bags of colored guts, pushing them into a pile on the rock while the others watched him.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

14  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

15  The squareness of the rock allowed a sort of plinth round it, so that to the right, over the lagoon, one could inch along a ledge and turn the corner out of sight.

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

16  He led the way over the rocks, inspected a sort of half-cave that held nothing more terrible than a clutch of rotten eggs, and at last sat down, looking round him and tapping the rock with the butt of his spear.

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

17  The most usual feature of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted by a skewed block; and that again surmounted, and that again, till the pinkness became a stack of balanced rock projecting through the looped fantasy of the forest creepers.

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