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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Jack explained to Roger as he worked.
2 All I'm saying is we've worked dashed hard.
3 But us three, Maurice, Roger and me, we've got work to do.
4 Now there was something to be done they worked with passion.
5 Ralph moved suddenly in the dark; but then he heard Eric working his mouth.
6 At last Ralph stopped work and stood up, smudging the sweat from his face with a dirty forearm.
7 Then for the first time he saw how few biguns there were and understood why the work had been so hard.
8 He ceased to work at his tooth and sat still, assimilating the possibilities of irresponsible authority.
9 The dancing, chanting boys had worked themselves away till their sound was nothing but a wordless rhythm.
10 By the time his breathing was normal again, he had worked out that bathing these injuries would have to wait.
11 The intention of a charge was forming among them; they were working up to it and the neck would be swept clear.
12 Roger, sitting on the very edge of the cliff, looked somberly back at the island as he worked with his fingers at a loose tooth.
13 More than this, in order to avoid going deep into the forest the boys worked near at hand on any fallen wood no matter how tangled with new growth.
14 Then he started work on the sow and paunched her, lugging out the hot bags of colored guts, pushing them into a pile on the rock while the others watched him.
15 The subsoil beneath the palm trees was a raised beach, and generations of palms had worked loose in this the stones that had lain on the sands of another shore.
16 They worked therefore with great energy and cheerfulness, though as time crept by there was a suggestion of panic in the energy and hysteria in the cheerfulness.
17 Nevertheless, the northern European tradition of work, play, and food right through the day, made it possible for them to adjust themselves wholly to this new rhythm.
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