PLAY in Classic Quotes

1  I'm not going to play any longer.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

2  Ralph entered into the play and everybody laughed.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

3  Ralph rolled on his stomach and began to play with the grass.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER THREE Huts on the Beach

4  They tickled under his nostrils and played leapfrog on his thighs.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

5  The green light and the glossy patches of sunshine played over their befouled bodies.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TEN The Shell and the Glasses

6  Well then," said the Lord of the Flies, "you'd better run off and play with the others.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

7  He lay in the mat of creepers while the evening advanced and the cannon continued to play.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death

8  Percival finished his whimper and went on playing, for the tears had washed the sand away.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

9  Ever since then he had been peaked, red-eyed, and miserable; a littiun who played little and cried often.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

10  Apart from food and sleep, they found time for play, aimless and trivial, in the white sand by the bright water.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

11  By now, Ralph had no self-consciousness in public thinking but would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER SEVEN Shadows and Tall Trees

12  The littluns played here, if not happily at least with absorbed attention; and often as many as three of them would play the same game together.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

13  The littluns played here, if not happily at least with absorbed attention; and often as many as three of them would play the same game together.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

14  When Henry tired of his play and wandered off along the beach, Roger followed him, keeping beneath the palms and drifting casually in the same direction.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

15  Nevertheless, the northern European tradition of work, play, and food right through the day, made it possible for them to adjust themselves wholly to this new rhythm.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

16  Instead of remaining and playing, he swam with steady strokes under Simon and crawled out of the other side of the pool to lie there, sleek and streaming like a seal.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair

17  They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER FOUR Painted Faces and Long Hair