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Quotes from Lord of the Flies by William Golding
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1 Maurice was only a few yards behind him.
2 Jack was standing under a tree about ten yards away.
3 Ralph inspected the whole thirty yards carefully and then plunged in.
4 Fifteen yards away from them came the plopping noise of fabric blown open.
5 A child had appeared among the palms, about a hundred yards along the beach.
6 For yards round the fire the heat was like a blow, and the breeze was a river of sparks.
7 Yet there was a space round Henry, perhaps six yards in diameter, into which he dare not throw.
8 The stone, that token of preposterous time, bounced five yards to Henry's right and fell in the water.
9 Then dog-like, uncomfortably on all fours yet unheeding his discomfort, he stole forward five yards and stopped.
10 The twins, holding tremulously to each other, dared the few yards to the next shelter and spread the dreadful news.
11 He let Jack lead the way; and Jack trod with theatrical caution though they could have seen an enemy twenty yards away.
12 But instead of this a narrow ledge of rock, a few yards wide and perhaps fifteen long, continued the island out into the sea.
13 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.
14 When his party was about ten yards from the platform he shouted an order and they halted, gasping, sweating, swaying in the fierce light.
15 With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a moment.
16 No one, not even Jack, would ask him to move and in the end they had to build the fire three yards away and in a place not really as convenient.
17 There were only a few more yards of stony ground and then the two sides of the island came almost together so that one expected a peak of headland.
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