SHIRT in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 He plucked at his stiff, grey shirt.
2 To put on a grey shirt once more was strangely pleasing.
3 Piggy took off his glasses and blinked at the assembly while he wiped them on his shirt.
4 This was a savage whose image refused to blend with that ancient picture of a boy in shorts and shirt.
5 He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it.
6 His face was dark with the violent pleasure of making this stupendous noise, and his heart was making the stretched shirt shake.
7 Piggy came with it, in shorts and shirt, laboring cautiously out of the forest with the evening sunlight gleaming from his glasses.
8 Shorts, shirts, and different garments they carried in their hands; but each boy wore a square black cap with a silver badge on it.
9 Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead.
10 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.
11 This wind pressed his grey shirt against his chest so that he noticed--in this new mood of comprehension--how the folds were stiff like cardboard, and unpleasant; noticed too how the frayed edges of his shorts were making an uncomfortable, pink area on the front of his thighs.