TRUNKS in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 It wasn't half dangerous with all them tree trunks falling.
2 The fair boy reached out and touched the jagged end of a trunk.
3 Two grey trunks rubbed each other with an evil speaking that no one had noticed by day.
4 Now the fire was nearer; those volleying shots were great limbs, trunks even, bursting.
5 Taking their cue from the innocent Johnny, they sat down on the fallen palm trunks and waited.
6 Tall trunks bore unexpected pale flowers all the way up to the dark canopy where life went on clamorously.
7 All round the place of assembly the grey trunks rose, straight or leaning, and supported the low roof of leaves.
8 He walked drearily between the trunks, his face empty of expression, and the blood was dry round his mouth and chin.
9 Ralph was standing by a contraption of palm trunks and leaves, a rude shelter that faced the lagoon and seemed very near to falling down.
10 The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themlves in a green dusk thirty feet above him, and all about was the undergrowth.
11 This last piece of shop brought sniggers from the choir, who perched like black birds on the criss-cross trunks and examined Ralph with interest.
12 Most of the wood was so rotten that when they pulled, it broke up into a shower of fragments and woodlice and decay; but some trunks came out in one piece.
13 Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea.
14 He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.
15 There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on.
16 Their heads clustered above the trunks in the green shade; heads brown, fair, black, chestnut, sandy, mouse-colored; heads muttering, whispering, heads full of eyes that watched Ralph and speculated.
17 Swearing, he turned off the trail and pushed his way through until the forest opened a little and instead of bald trunks supporting a dark roof there were light grey trunks and crowns of feathery palm.
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