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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 They seemed to share one wide, ecstatic grin.
2 To Ralph, seated, this seemed the breaking up of sanity.
3 He was the only boy on the island whose hair never seemed to grow.
4 They were bright blue, eyes that in this frustration seemed bolting and nearly mad.
5 The separate noises of the fire merged into a drum-roll that seemed to shake the mountain.
6 The pig's head hung down with gaping neck and seemed to search for something on the ground.
7 He had fallen asleep after what seemed hours of tossing and turning noisily among the dry leaves.
8 The crying went on, breath after breath, and seemed to sustain him upright as if he were nailed to it.
9 A flurry of wind made the palms talk and the noise seemed very loud now that darkness and silence made it so noticeable.
10 Simon looked now, from Ralph to Jack, as he had looked from Ralph to the horizon, and what he saw seemed to make him afraid.
11 With that word the heat seemed to increase till it became a threatening weight and the lagoon attacked them with a blinding effulgence.
12 But there seemed something more fitting in leaving the last word till they stood on the top, and could see a circular horizon of water.
13 Ralph was standing by a contraption of palm trunks and leaves, a rude shelter that faced the lagoon and seemed very near to falling down.
14 They raised wet lips at Ralph, for they seemed provided with not quite enough skin, so that their profiles were blurred and their mouths pulled open.
15 When the breeze blew, the lines would strain taut and some accident of this pull lifted the head and chest upright so that the figure seemed to peer across the brow of the mountain.
16 Only when Jack himself roused a gaudy bird from a primitive nest of sticks was the silence shattered and echoes set ringing by a harsh cry that seemed to come out of the abyss of ages.
17 He was not noticeably darker than when he had dropped in, but the shock of black hair, down his nape and low on his forehead, seemed to suit his gloomy face and made what had seemed at first an unsociable remoteness into something forbidding.
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