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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 As the echoes died away so did the laughter, and there was silence.
2 Ralph shouted experimentally and they listened to the muted echoes.
3 Ralph let out his spare breath with a little gasp that was echoed by his audience.
4 The shivering, silvery, unreal laughter of the savages sprayed out and echoed away.
5 For a moment or two the forest and all the other dimly appreciated places echoed with the parody of laughter.
6 A single sea bird flapped upwards with a hoarse cry that was echoed presently, and something squawked in the forest.
7 A deep, harsh note boomed under the palms, spread through the intricacies of the forest and echoed back from the pink granite of the mountain.
8 The group in front of him shifted and laughter shivered outwards from among them, light, excited laughter that went echoing among the tall rocks.
9 The conch was silent, a gleaming tusk; Ralph's face was dark with breathlessness and the air over the island was full of bird-clamor and echoes ringing.
10 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.
11 He was clambering heavily among the creepers and broken trunks when a bird, a vision of red and yellow, flashed upwards with a witch-like cry; and this cry was echoed by another.
12 Only when Jack himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages.