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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 A pall stretched for miles away from the island.
2 They were miles wide, apparently not breakers or the banked ridges of shallow water.
3 Beneath the capering boys a quarter of a mile square of forest was savage with smoke and flame.
4 The deep sea breaking miles away on the reef made an undertone less perceptible than the susurration of the blood.
5 Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue.
6 There were miles of vague water at his right and the restless ocean lay under his left hand, as awful as the shaft of a pit.
7 The reef enclosed more than one side of the island, lying perhaps a mile out and parallel to what they now thought of as their beach.
8 The sand, trembling beneath the heat haze, concealed many figures in its miles of length; boys were making their way toward the platform through the hot, dumb sand.
9 Then, three miles up, the wind steadied and bore it in a descending curve round the sky and swept it in a great slant across the reef and the lagoon toward the mountain.
10 A sliver of moon rose over the horizon, hardly large enough to make a path of light even when it sat right down on the water; but there were other lights in the sky, that moved fast, winked, or went out, though not even a faint popping came down from the battle fought at ten miles' height.