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 Current Search - twist in Lord of the Flies
1  The small boy twisted away into his tent.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
2  The small boy twisted further into himself.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain
3  He was twisting his hands now, unconsciously.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness
4  Sam twisted and the obscene word shot out of him.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses
5  The quality of his speech twisted Ralph on the sand.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
6  He held out his hand and twisted the fingers into a fist.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses
7  His spear twisted a little in his hands and then he withdrew it again.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters
8  Ralph twisted sideways on top of a writhing body and felt hot breath on his cheek.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses
9  Like things trying to look like something else-- He twisted in the urgency of telling.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair
10  The densest tangle on the island, a mass of twisted stems, black and green and impenetrable, lay on their left and tall grass swayed before them.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ELEVEN Castle Rock
11  Later perhaps, practiced debaters--Jack, Maurice, Piggy--would use their whole art to twist the meeting: but now at the beginning the subject of the debate must be laid out clearly.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FIVE Beast from Water
12  Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pink lips of the mouth, lay eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell
13  At first light he would creep into the thicket, squeeze between the twisted stems, ensconce himself so deep that only a crawler like himself could come through, and that crawler would be jabbed.
Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters