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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 The boys lay, panting like dogs.
2 They lay piled among turned earth.
3 Something creamy lay among the ferny weeds.
4 The sun slanted in and lay golden over half the platform.
5 Ralph lay flat and looked up at the palm trees and the sky.
6 By them lay a stick of charcoal brought down from the fire.
7 He dived in the sand at Piggy's feet and lay there laughing.
8 In the west, and unheeded, the sun lay only an inch or two above the sea.
9 They flung themselves down in the shadows that lay among the shattered rocks.
10 Piggy paused for breath and stroked the glistening thing that lay in Ralph's hands.
11 Jack lifted his head and stared at the inscrutable masses of creeper that lay across the trail.
12 The two boys, bullet-headed and with hair like tow, flung themselves down and lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dogs.
13 Some unknown force had wrenched and shattered these cubes so that they lay askew, often piled diminishingly on each other.
14 In a few seconds the fat boy's grunts were behind him and he was hurrying toward the screen that still lay between him and the lagoon.
15 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.
16 Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pink lips of the mouth, lay eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern.
17 They had guessed before that this was an island: clambering among the pink rocks, with the sea on either side, and the crystal heights of air, they had known by some instinct that the sea lay on every side.
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