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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Here was loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node.
2 His hair was full of dirt and tapped like the tendrils of a creeper.
3 Then the piglet tore loose from the creepers and scurried into the undergrowth.
4 Here, bushes and a wild tangle of creeper made a mat that kept out all the light of the sun.
5 All three of them tried to convey the sense of the pink live thing struggling in the creepers.
6 Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail.
7 The creepers were as thick as their thighs and left little but tunnels for further penetration.
8 Beyond the creeper, the trail joined a pig-run that was wide enough and trodden enough to be a path.
9 The pink granite of the next cliff was further back from the creepers and trees so that they could trot up the path.
10 Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles.
11 They found a piglet caught in a curtain of creepers, throwing itself at the elastic traces in all the madness of extreme terror.
12 Then the wave came back, the gully boiled before them and spray dashed up to the very creeper so that the boys were wet and shrieking.
13 There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm.
14 Only sometimes as he lifted the ropes of creeper aside and chose his direction from the trend of the land, he mouthed words that did not reach the air.
15 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.
16 Their only guide, apart from the brown ground and occasional flashes of light through the foliage, was the tendency of slope: whether this hole, laced as it was with the cables of creeper, stood higher than that.
17 The most usual feature of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted by a skewed block; and that again surmounted, and that again, till the pinkness became a stack of balanced rock projecting through the looped fantasy of the forest creepers.
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