ROCK in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 The rock was as large as a small motor car.
2 There's less of that jungly stuff; and more pink rock.
3 Piggy fell against a rock and clutched it with both hands.
4 He tucked the shell under his arm, and crouched back on a rock.
5 They could edge along them, deep in the plant world, their faces to the rock.
6 Then they inched the grotesque dead thing up the rock and toppled it over on top.
7 They scrambled down a rock slope, dropped among flowers and made their way under the trees.
8 The nearer acres of rock flowers fluttered and for half a minute the breeze blew cool on their faces.
9 At last the way to the top looked like a scramble over pink rock, with no more plunging through darkness.
10 The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
11 The difficulty was not the steep ascent round the shoulders of rock, but the occasional plunges through the undergrowth to get to the next path.
12 This was filled with a blue flower, a rock plant of some sort, and the overflow hung down the vent and spilled lavishly among the canopy of the forest.
13 Ralph sketched a twining line from the bald spot on which they stood down a slope, a gully, through flowers, round and down to the rock where the scar started.
14 The flames, as though they were a kind of wild life, crept as a jaguar creeps on its belly toward a line of birch-like saplings that fledged an outcrop of the pink rock.
15 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.
16 The great rock loitered, poised on one toe, decided not to return, moved through the air, fell, struck, turned over, leapt droning through the air and smashed a deep hole in the canopy of the forest.
17 The most usual feature of the rock was a pink cliff surmounted by a skewed block; and that again surmounted, and that again, till the pinkness became a stack of balanced rock projecting through the looped fantasy of the forest creepers.
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