SCAR in Classic Quotes

1  He looked up and down the scar.

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

2  The dark sky was shattered by a blue-white scar.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death

3  All round him the long scar smashed into the jungle was a bath of heat.

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

4  Ralph was already clambering over the first smashed swathes of the scar.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain

5  He noticed Ralph's scarred nakedness, and the sombre silence of all four of them.

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

6  Behind this was the darkness of the forest proper and the open space of the scar.

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

7  In the middle of the scar he stood on his head and grinned at the reversed fat boy.

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

8  Again the blue-white scar jagged above them and the sulphurous explosion beat down.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER NINE A View to a Death

9  The undergrowth at the side of the scar was shaken and a multitude of raindrops fell pattering.

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

10  A moment later he was battling with the complex undergrowth that was already engulfing the scar.

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

11  By the time Ralph had reached the landward end of the scar he was using precious breath to swear.

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

12  The skirts of the forest and the scar were familiar, near the conch and the shelters and sufficiently friendly in daylight.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER EIGHT Gift for the Darkness

13  He picked his way up the scar, passed the great rock where Ralph had climbed on the first morning, then turned off to his right among the trees.

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

14  Ralph sketched a twining line from the bald spot on which they stood down a slope, a gully, through flowers, round and down to the rock where the scar started.

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

15  Then they broke out into the sunlight and for a while they were busy finding and devouring food as they moved down the scar toward the platform and the meeting.

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

16  Beyond falls and cliffs there was a gash visible in the trees; there were the splintered trunks and then the drag, leaving only a fringe of palm between the scar and the sea.

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

17  Then, with the martyred expression of a parent who has to keep up with the senseless ebullience of the children, he picked up the conch, turned toward the forest, and began to pick his way over the tumbled scar.

Lord of the Flies By William Golding
Context   In CHAPTER TWO Fire on the Mountain