THREE in Classic Quotes

1  The three of them fell into step.

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

2  The three boys began to scramble up.

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

3  All three were hot, dirty and exhausted.

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

4  The three boys walked briskly on the sand.

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

5  The three littluns paused in their game and looked up.

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

6  Then they all three laughed ashamedly and began to climb back to the track.

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

7  A picture of three boys walking along the bright beach flitted through his mind.

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

8  The assault on the summit must wait while the three boys accepted this challenge.

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

9  All three of them tried to convey the sense of the pink live thing struggling in the creepers.

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

10  The three boys stood in the darkness, striving unsuccessfully to convey the majesty of adult life.

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

11  Piggy hung about near for all his brave words, and the three bigger boys went together to the next shelter.

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

12  Just now he was being obedient because he was interested; and the three children, kneeling in the sand, were at peace.

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

13  Its voice was thin, needle-sharp and insistent; The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish.

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

14  The littluns played here, if not happily at least with absorbed attention; and often as many as three of them would play the same game together.

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

15  No one, not even Jack, would ask him to move and in the end they had to build the fire three yards away and in a place not really as convenient.

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

16  Then, three miles up, the wind steadied and bore it in a descending curve round the sky and swept it in a great slant across the reef and the lagoon toward the mountain.

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

17  Behind the four boys, the smoke moved gently along the horizon; and on the beach, Henry and Johnny were throwing sand at Percival who was crying quietly again; and all three were in complete ignorance of the excitement.

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