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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Perhaps they knew where we was going to; and perhaps not.
2 When you done laughing perhaps we can get on with the meeting.
3 Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.
4 Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others.
5 Either the wandering breezes or perhaps the decline of the sun allowed a little coolness to lie under the trees.
6 They were reminded of their personal sorrows; and perhaps felt themselves to share in a sorrow that was universal.
7 Out there, perhaps a mile away, the white surf flinked on a coral reef, and beyond that the open sea was dark blue.
8 He was a boy of perhaps six years, sturdy and fair, his clothes torn, his face covered with a sticky mess of fruit.
9 But instead of this a narrow ledge of rock, a few yards wide and perhaps fifteen long, continued the island out into the sea.
10 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.
11 Starting perhaps a hundred feet below them on the steeper side of the mountain, the patch might have been designed expressly for fuel.
12 Perhaps food had appeared where at the last incursion there had been none; bird droppings, insects perhaps, any of the strewn detritus of landward life.
13 For perhaps ten seconds they crouched like that while the flailing fire sent smoke and sparks and waves of inconstant light over the top of the mountain.
14 Later perhaps, practiced debaters--Jack, Maurice, Piggy--would use their whole art to twist the meeting: but now at the beginning the subject of the debate must be laid out clearly.
15 There was not enough soil for them to grow to any height and when they reached perhaps twenty feet they fell and dried, forming a criss-cross pattern of trunks, very convenient to sit on.
16 Some act of God--a typhoon perhaps, or the storm that had accompanied his own arrival--had banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long, deep pool in the beach with a high ledge of pink granite at the further end.
17 Toward noon, as the floods of light fell more nearly to the perpendicular, the stark colors of the morning were smoothed in pearl and opalescence; and the heat--as though the impending sun's height gave it momentum--became a blow that they ducked, running to the shade and lying there, perhaps even sleeping.
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