LEAVING in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 The leaves came apart and fluttered down.
2 Simon dropped the screen of leaves back into place.
3 Ralph looked up, frowning, from the complication of leaves.
4 He squatted down, parted the leaves and looked out into the clearing.
5 Ralph turned to the shelter and lifted a branch with a whole tiling of leaves.
6 Even the tiny children went and did their best among the leaves and broken branches.
7 Roger and Ralph moved on, this time leaving Jack in the rear, for all his brave words.
8 Beneath the dark canopy of leaves and smoke the fire laid hold on the forest and began to gnaw.
9 Jack, concealed from the sun, knelt by the pool and opened the two large leaves that he carried.
10 When he was secure in the middle he was in a little cabin screened off from the open space by a few leaves.
11 All round the place of assembly the grey trunks rose, straight or leaning, and supported the low roof of leaves.
12 Small flames stirred at the trunk of a tree and crawled away through leaves and brushwood, dividing and increasing.
13 Now the twins, with unsuspected intelligence, came up the mountain with armfuls of dried leaves and dumped them against the pile.
14 But there seemed something more fitting in leaving the last word till they stood on the top, and could see a circular horizon of water.
15 Ralph was standing by a contraption of palm trunks and leaves, a rude shelter that faced the lagoon and seemed very near to falling down.
16 Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea.
17 With a convulsion of the mind, Ralph discovered dirt and decay, understood how much he disliked perpetually flicking the tangled hair out of his eyes, and at last, when the sun was gone, rolling noisily to rest among dry leaves.
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