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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 The darkness seemed to flow round them like a tide.
2 Astonishingly, a dark figure moved against the tide.
3 The great wave of the tide moved farther along the island and the water lifted.
4 He made little runnels that the tide filled and tried to crowd them with creatures.
5 The tide swelled in over the rain-pitted sand and smoothed everything with a layer of silver.
6 The tide was low and there was a strip of weed-strewn beach that was almost as firm as a road.
7 Here and there they could clamber over wave-wet rock, leaping across clear pools that the tide had left.
8 Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.
9 The rock-pools which so fascinated him were covered by the tide, so he was without an interest until the tide went back.
10 The edge of the lagoon became a streak of phosphorescence which advanced minutely, as the great wave of the tide flowed.
11 The great Pacific tide was coming in and every few seconds the relatively still water of the lagoon heaved forwards an inch.
12 He swung to the right, running desperately fast, with the heat beating on his left side and the fire racing forward like a tide.
13 The tide was coming in and there was only a narrow strip of firm beach between the water and the white, stumbling stuff near the palm terrace.
14 The tide was running so that long streaks of foam tailed away from the reef and for a moment they felt that the boat was moving steadily astern.
15 But the island ran true to form and the incredible pool, which clearly was only invaded by the sea at high tide, was so deep at one end as to be dark green.