WATCH in Classic Quotes

1  The rest of the boys watched intently.

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

2  He's coming to see if we're keeping watch.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWELVE Cry of the Hunters

3  Ralph watched them, envious and resentful.

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

4  Ralph continued to watch the ship, ravenously.

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

5  Eric squatted back and watched Sam make up the fire.

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

6  In theory one should have been asleep and one on watch.

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

7  For a few moments the twins watched the fire in silence.

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

8  The littluns watched him inscrutably over double handfuls of ripe fruit.

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

9  Ralph saw it first, and watched till the intentness of his gaze drew all eyes that way.

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

10  As they watched, a flash of fire appeared at the root of one wisp, and then the smoke thickened.

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

11  Piggy appeared again, sat on the rocky ledge, and watched Ralph's green and white body enviously.

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

12  Sometimes land loomed where there was no land and flicked out like a bubble as the children watched.

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

13  Johnny watched him with china-blue eyes; then began to fling up sand in a shower, and presently Percival was crying again.

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

14  Ralph chose the firm strip as a path because he needed to think, and only here could he allow his feet to move without having to watch them.

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

15  You could see the damp spot where each flake died, then you could mark the first flake that lay down without melting and watch, the whole ground turn white.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

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.

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

17  Eric watched the scurrying woodlice that were so frantically unable to avoid the flames, and thought of the first fire--just down there, on the steeper side of the mountain, where now was complete darkness.

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