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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 Their black caps of maintenance were slid over one ear like berets.
3 His ordinary voice sounded like a whisper after the harsh note of the conch.
4 For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks.
5 The passionate noise of agreement from the assembly hit him like a wave and he lost his thread.
6 He says in the morning it turned into them things like ropes in the trees and hung in the branches.
7 Sleep enveloped him like the swathing mirages that were wrestling with the brilliance of the lagoon.
8 At last the way to the top looked like a scramble over pink rock, with no more plunging through darkness.
9 Ralph did a surface dive and swam under water with his eyes open; the sandy edge of the pool loomed up like a hillside.
10 Here the roots and stems of creepers were in such tangles that the boys had to thread through them like pliant needles.
11 The two boys, bullet-headed and with hair like tow, flung themselves down and lay grinning and panting at Ralph like dogs.
12 The breezes that on the lagoon had chased their tails like kittens were finding their way across the platform and into the forest.
13 Better Piggy than Fatty," he said at last, with the directness of genuine leadership, "and anyway, I'm sorry if you feel like that.
14 The fair boy stopped and jerked his stockings with an automatic gesture that made the jungle seem for a moment like the Home Counties.
15 This last piece of shop brought sniggers from the choir, who perched like black birds on the criss-cross trunks and examined Ralph with interest.
16 There, where the island petered out in water, was another island; a rock, almost detached, standing like a fort, facing them across the green with one bold, pink bastion.
17 When these breezes reached the platform the palm fronds would whisper, so that spots of blurred sunlight slid over their bodies or moved like bright, winged things in the shade.
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