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1 Ralph looked at him critically through his tangle of fair hair.
2 On their left was an impenetrable tangle of creepers and trees.
3 Ralph pushed back the tangle of fair hair that hung on his forehead.
4 He put on his glasses, waded away from Ralph, and crouched down among the tangled foliage.
5 Here, bushes and a wild tangle of creeper made a mat that kept out all the light of the sun.
6 Presently the white, broken stumps, the split sticks and the tangle of the thicket refocused.
7 The palms that still stood made a green roof, covered on the underside with a quivering tangle of reflections from the lagoon.
8 The tangle of lines showed him the mechanics of this parody; he examined the white nasal bones, the teeth, the colors of corruption.
9 Then he sat carefully on a fallen trunk near the little cliff that fronted the lagoon; and the tangled reflections quivered over him.
10 He could see a striped savage moving hastily out of a green tangle, and coming toward the mat where he hid, a savage who carried a spear.
11 A dark little boy, not much younger than Piggy, parted a tangle of undergrowth, walked on to the platform, and smiled cheerfully at everybody.
12 The densest tangle on the island, a mass of twisted stems, black and green and impenetrable, lay on their left and tall grass swayed before them.
13 More than this, in order to avoid going deep into the forest the boys worked near at hand on any fallen wood no matter how tangled with new growth.
14 Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees.
15 Here the breeze was fitful and allowed the strings of the parachute to tangle and festoon; and the figure sat, its helmeted head between its knees, held by a complication of lines.
16 Normally the underside of the green roof was lit by a tangle of golden reflections, and their faces were lit upside down--like, thought Ralph, when you hold an electric torch in your hands.
17 With a convulsion of the mind, Ralph discovered dirt and decay, understood how much he disliked perpetually flicking the tangled hair out of his eyes, and at last, when the sun was gone, rolling noisily to rest among dry leaves.
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