WAVES in Classic Quotes
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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Jack stood up and waved his spear.
2 The chief waved his objection aside.
3 Ralph had to wave the conch once more.
4 He had to wave the conch before he could make them hear him.
5 A wave of restlessness set the boys swaying and moving aimlessly.
6 A wave of heated air trembled above the ashes but without a trace of smoke.
7 The great wave of the tide moved farther along the island and the water lifted.
8 There was no sense of the passage of waves; only this minute-long fall and rise and fall.
9 The passionate noise of agreement from the assembly hit him like a wave and he lost his thread.
10 Over to the left, the waves of ocean were breathing, sucking down, then boiling back over the rock.
11 Wave after wave, Ralph followed the rise and fall until something of the remoteness of the sea numbed his brain.
12 The edge of the lagoon became a streak of phosphorescence which advanced minutely, as the great wave of the tide flowed.
13 This generosity brought a spatter of applause from the boys, so that Jack grinned at them, then waved the conch for silence.
14 Down here, almost on a level with the sea, you could follow with your eye the ceaseless, bulging passage of the deep sea waves.
15 Then the wave came back, the gully boiled before them and spray dashed up to the very creeper so that the boys were wet and shrieking.
16 Any day there may be a ship out there"--he waved his arm at the taut wire of the horizon--"and if we have a signal going they'll come and take us off.
17 For perhaps ten seconds they crouched like that while the flailing fire sent smoke and sparks and waves of inconstant light over the top of the mountain.
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