Lord Of The Flies by William Golding

Even the choir applauded; and the freckles on Jack's face disappeared under a blush of mortification. p. 23

Their only guide, apart from the brown ground and occasional flashes of light through the foliage, was the tendency of slope: whether this hole, laced as it was with the cables of creeper, stood higher than that. p.26

He flashed a conspiratorial grin at the other two. p.37

The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects. p.49

but Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. p.78

Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. p.89

So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming; round them the close sky was located with stars, save where the mountain punched up a hole of blackness. p.121

Another voice told him not to be a fool; and the darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality. p.122

Piggy gave up the attempt to rebuke Ralph. p.128

The twins watched anxiously and Piggy sat expressionless behind the luminous wall of his myopia. p.169

By him stood Piggy still holding out the talisman, the fragile, shining beauty of the shell. p.180

He rubbed his cheek along his forearm, smelling the acrid scent of salt and sweat and the staleness of dirt. p.186

There he would sit, and the search would pass by him, and the cordon waver on, ululating along the island, and he would be free. p.191

Then the red thing was past and the elephantine progress diminished toward the sea. p.194

If Jack was astonished by their fervor he did not show it. p.133

Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar. p.105

A sound, half-laugh, half-jeer rose among the seated boys. p.84

Beside the pool his sinewy body held up a mask that drew their eyes appalled them. p. 64

The glittering sea rose up, moved apart in planes of blatant impossibility; the coral reef and the few stunted palms that clung to the more elevated parts would float up into the sky, would quiver, be plucked apart, run like raindrops on a wire or be repeated as in an odd succession of mirrors. p.58

Jack nodded, as much for the sake of agreeing as anything, and by tacit consent they left the shelter and went toward the bathing pool. p.55

He paused in the tumult, standing, looking beyond them and down the unfriendly side of the mountain to the great patch where they had found dead wood. p.43

By now they were listening to the tirade. p.45

There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. p.31