TIME in Classic Quotes

1  Next time there would be no mercy.

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

2  I've got to have time to think things out.

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

3  Piggy's glasses were misted again--this time with humiliation.

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

4  By the time Ralph finished blowing the conch the platform was crowded.

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

5  By the time the pile was built, they were on different sides of a high barrier.

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

6  That was another time of comparative coolness but menaced by the coming of the dark.

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

7  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

8  By the time Ralph had reached the landward end of the scar he was using precious breath to swear.

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

9  There was Maurice, next in size among the choir boys to Jack, but broad and grinning all the time.

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

10  The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water.

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

11  Apart from food and sleep, they found time for play, aimless and trivial, in the white sand by the bright water.

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

12  The undoubted littluns, those aged about six, led a quite distinct, and at the same time intense, life of their own.

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

13  The sun in his eyes reminded him how time was passing, so he took the conch down from the tree and examined the surface.

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

14  The time had come for the assembly and as he walked into the concealing splendors of the sunlight he went carefully over the points of his speech.

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

15  This time Ralph expressed the intensity of his emotion by pretending to knock Simon down; and soon they were a happy, heaving pile in the under-dusk.

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

16  They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

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

17  By the trunk of a vast tree that grew pale flowers on its grey bark he checked, closed his eyes, and once more drew in the warm air; and this time his breath came short, there was even a passing pallor in his face, and then the surge of blood again.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach