SHADOW in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 A shadow fronted him tempestuously.
2 Simon came stealing out of the shadows by the shelters.
3 In a moment the platform was full of arguing, gesticulating shadows.
4 They flung themselves down in the shadows that lay among the shattered rocks.
5 He lay against a log, his mouth gaping, blue shadows creeping round his lips.
6 The boys on the neck stood in a pool of their own shadow, diminished to shaggy heads.
7 All the shadows on Ralph's face were reversed; green above, bright below from the lagoon.
8 But now the sun was slanting in at one side, so that the shadows were where they ought to be.
9 The bat was the child's shadow, shrunk by the vertical sun to a patch between the hurrying feet.
10 Two boys rolled out a pile of brushwood and dead leaves, two dim shadows talking sleepily to each other.
11 Idly looking beyond the fire, he resettled the scattered rocks from their flat shadows into daylight contours.
12 He passed like a shadow under the darkness of the tree and crouched, looking down at the trodden ground at his feet.
13 When Roger opened his eyes and saw him, a darker shadow crept beneath the swarthiness of his skin; but Jack noticed nothing.
14 Then the creature stepped from mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing.
15 The pig-track was a dark tunnel, for the sun was sliding quickly toward the edge of the world and in the forest shadows were never far to seek.
16 Ralph hauled himself onto this platform, noted the coolness and shade, shut one eye, and decided that the shadows on his body were really green.
17 Then he leapt back on the terrace, pulled off his shirt, and stood there among the skull-like coconuts with green shadows from the palms and the forest sliding over his skin.
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