WHICH in Classic Quotes

1  He took off his glasses and looked vainly for something with which to clean them.

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

2  This one, against which Jack leaned, moved with a grating sound when they pushed.

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

3  Ralph pursed his lips and squirted air into the shell, which emitted a low, farting noise.

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

4  Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.

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

5  As it happened, the particular marks in which they were interested had not been touched, so they made no protest.

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

6  Driven back by the tide, his footprints became bays in which they were trapped and gave him the illusion of mastery.

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

7  The place of assembly in which he stood was roughly a triangle; but irregular and sketchy, like everything they made.

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

8  The rock-pools which so fascinated him were covered by the tide, so he was without an interest until the tide went back.

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

9  First there was the log on which he himself sat; a dead tree that must have been quite exceptionally big for the platform.

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

10  The bottom part of the trickle, as though conscious of their gaze, thickened to a creamy blur which crept up the feeble column.

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

11  He capered toward Bill, and the mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness.

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

12  He noticed blood on his hands and grimaced distastefully, looked for something on which to clean them, then wiped them on his shorts and laughed.

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

13  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.

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

14  Ralph sketched a twining line from the bald spot on which they stood down a slope, a gully, through flowers, round and down to the rock where the scar started.

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

15  Their bodies, from throat to ankle, were hidden by black cloaks which bore a long silver cross on the left breast and each neck was finished off with a hambone frill.

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

16  The flame, nearly invisible at first in that bright sunlight, enveloped a small twig, grew, was enriched with color and reached up to a branch which exploded with a sharp crack.

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

17  There had grown up tacitly among the biguns the opinion that Piggy was an outsider, not only by accent, which did not matter, but by fat, and ass-mar, and specs, and a certain disinclination for manual labor.

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