WHITE in Classic Quotes

1  Jack's face was white under the freckles.

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

2  One of them contained white clay, and the other red.

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

3  The child's voice went piping on from behind the white conch.

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

4  He had some white stones too, an a bird cage with a green parrot.

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

5  He rubbed the charcoal stick between the patches of red and white on his face.

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

6  The face of red and white and black swung through the air and jigged toward Bill.

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

7  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

8  Their green sepals drew back a little and the white tips of the flowers rose delicately to meet the open air.

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

9  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

10  The candle-buds opened their wide white flowers glimmering under the light that pricked down from the first stars.

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

11  Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue.

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

12  There was a small pool at the end of the river, dammed back by sand and full of white water-lilies and needle-like reeds.

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

13  Ralph moved the lenses back and forth, this way and that, till a glossy white image of the declining sun lay on a piece of rotten wood.

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

14  The tide was coming in and there was only a narrow strip of firm beach between the water and the white, stumbling stuff near the palm terrace.

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

15  Echoes and birds flew, white and pink dust floated, the forest further down shook as with the passage of an enraged monster: and then the island was still.

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

16  He made one cheek and one eye-socket white, then he rubbed red over the other half of his face and slashed a black bar of charcoal across from right ear to left jaw.

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

17  Simon put out his hand, timidly, to touch Ralph; but Ralph started to run, splashing through the shallow end of the bathing pool, across the hot, white sand and under the palms.

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