THE BEACH in Classic Quotes

1  Signs of life were visible now on the beach.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

2  He took a few rapid steps toward the beach, then came back.

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

3  He went down the beach and busied himself at the water's edge.

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

4  Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

5  A child had appeared among the palms, about a hundred yards along the beach.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

6  This part of the beach was nearer the mountain than any other that they had seen.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

7  Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies came scavenging over the beach.

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

8  Ralph climbed out of the bathing pool and trotted up the beach and sat in the shade beneath the palms.

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

9  The two boys trotted down the beach, and, turning at the water's edge, looked back at the pink mountain.

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

10  He had stood frowing down at a pile of sand on the beach where somebody had been trying to build a little house or hut.

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

11  He turned neatly on to his feet, jumped down to the beach, knelt and swept a double armful of sand into a pile against his chest.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

12  When the other two had trotted down the beach to look back at the mountain he had followed them for a few yards and then stopped.

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

13  Ralph danced out into the hot air of the beach and then returned as a fighter-plane, with wings swept back, and machine-gunned Piggy.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

14  The children who came along the beach, singly or in twos, leapt into visibility when they crossed the line from heat haze to nearer sand.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

15  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

16  Here the beach was interrupted abruptly by the square motif of the landscape; a great platform of pink granite thrust up uncompromisingly through forest and terrace and sand and lagoon to make a raised jetty four feet high.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell

17  Some act of God--a typhoon perhaps, or the storm that had accompanied his own arrival--had banked sand inside the lagoon so that there was a long, deep pool in the beach with a high ledge of pink granite at the further end.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER ONE The Sound of the Shell