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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 They carried spears and disposed themselves to defend the entrance.
2 The littluns began to jabber among themselves, then one stood forward.
3 Not for five minutes could they drag themselves away from this triumph.
4 The savages guarding the neck muttered among themselves but made no motion.
5 They flung themselves down in the shadows that lay among the shattered rocks.
6 Here, struck down by the heat, the sow fell and the hunters hurled themselves at her.
7 Boys flung themselves wildly from the pig track and scrabbled in the creepers, screaming.
8 The dancing, chanting boys had worked themselves away till their sound was nothing but a wordless rhythm.
9 The strange attendant creatures, with their fiery eyes and trailing vapors, busied themselves round his head.
10 Now that his physical voice was silent the inner voice of reason, and other voices too, made themselves heard.
11 They were reminded of their personal sorrows; and perhaps felt themselves to share in a sorrow that was universal.
12 The two boys, bullet-headed and with hair like tow, flung themselves down and lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dogs.
13 The boys ranged themselves in rows on the grass before him but Ralph and Piggy stayed a foot lower, standing on the soft sand.
14 Piggy and Ralph, under the threat of the sky, found themselves eager to take a place in this demented but partly secure society.
15 Dark figures drew themselves out of the wreckage and flitted away, till the screams of the littluns and Piggy's gasps were once more audible.
16 Nevertheless, the northern European tradition of work, play, and food right through the day, made it possible for them to adjust themselves wholly to this new rhythm.
17 The hunters sat, stuffing themselves with this easy meal, trying to convince themselves that they got sufficient kick out of bananas and that other olive-grey, jelly-like fruit.
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